ATTORNEY GRIEV. COMM'N OF MARYLAND v. Lazerow

How courts have described this case

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• disbarring an attorney who misappropriated down payments of home purchasers in order to fund his business’s construction of additional homes
• disbarring non-practicing attorney who misappropriated home purchasers’ payments out of escrow accounts
• “[Respondent]^ general good character and reputation, the lack of prior misconduct, his restitution of the funds, and his remorse and shame are not compelling extenuating circumstances that would warrant a sanction less than disbarment.”
• misappropriation by an attorney in nonprofessional capacity warrants severe sanction “since it involves a breach of trust or a fiduciary relationship and bears upon the fitness of a lawyer to practice his profession.”
• misappropriating entrusted funds in a non-legal capacity
• misappropriation of home purchasers’ money

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).