A unanimous Appellate Division, First Department, panel last Thursday disbarred Manhattan attorney Shigetaka Ogihara, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to stealing $1.8 million that he was supposed to hold in his IOLA account for a client.
According to the decision, Ogihara transferred the money, held in the name of a client identified as K.Y., to a “third person.” When K.Y. asked for the money back, he was unable to produce it.
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