Port Washington Lawyer Who Failed to Account for Deceased Client's Funds is Disbarred

Port Washington lawyer Rudolph Ronald D’Amato has recently been disbarred.

D’Amato was suspended in July 2014 after he was unable to account for over $1 million missing from a deceased client’s estate, New York Law Journal reported.

D’Amato, the sole executor of his client Winifred Binstead’s estate, embezzled her funds, according to the Journal. Binstead died in 2005.

D’Amato failed to comply with a court order that required him to file an accounting as attorney-in-fact with the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division reports.

Binstead’s great niece complained in 2011 that D’Amato dissipated Binstead’s assets, according to the Journal.

D’Amato’s name has been removed from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law and he was ordered to:

• Refrain from practicing law in any form (as principal or as agent, clerk, or employee of another).
• No longer appear as an attorney or counselor-at-law before any court, Judge, Justice, board, commission, or other public authority.
• No longer offer his opinions or advice regarding the law.
• Refrain from holding himself out as an attorney and counselor-at-law in any way.

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