Once-prominent Manhattan real estate attorney Mitchell Kossoff has been disbarred in the wake of pleading guilty in December to theft and fraud charges in which he admitted to owing 35 people and entities, some of whom are former clients, a total of more than $14 million.

The Appellate Division, First Department court disbarred Kossoff, who it appears didn’t contest a grievance committee motion to have him disbarred, in a fairly terse opinion in which it said that Kossoff’s felony conviction “is a proper predicate for automatic disbarment under [state statutes] 22 NYCRR 1240.12 (c)(1), Judiciary Law §90(4)(a) and (b) and Judiciary Law §90(4)(e).”

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