Former State Senate Democratic Leader John L. Sampson was disbarred Nov. 1 for practicing law while his license was suspended.
The suspension was imposed in March after his conviction for obstructing justice and lying to Federal agents investigating allegations that, as a private attorney in Brooklyn, he had embezzled $440,000 from the sale of two houses, one in 1998 and one in 2002, that he was supposed to hold in escrow for Brooklyn Supreme Court. The court would have distributed the money to former owners and creditors.
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