NOTICE OF SUSPENSION Case No. 95-69-JC Angelo J. Polizzi, P-34324, Detroit, Michigan, by the Michigan Supreme Court, increasing the thirty-month suspension imposed by Tri-County Hearing Panel #1 and affirmed by the Attorney Discipline Board.
1) Suspension - forty-eight (48) months; 2) Effective April 4, 1995. Respondent was convicted in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, by guilty plea, of Conspiracy to Launder Monetary Instruments, in violation of 18 USC 371. In accordance with MCR 9.120(B)(1), respondent was automatically suspended from the practice of law in Michigan effective April 4, 1995, the date of the felony conviction. Upon the filing of the judgment of conviction, the Attorney Discipline Board entered an order directing respondent to show cause why a final order of discipline should not be entered. On February 14, 1996, the panel entered an order suspending respondent from the practice of law in Michigan for thirty months effective April 4, 1995. Costs were assessed in the amount of $2,027.50.
The Grievance Administrator filed a petition for review. On July 9, 1996, the Attorney Discipline Board entered an order affirming the hearing panel order of suspension.
The Grievance Administrator filed an application for leave to appeal. On May 28, 1997, the Michigan Supreme Court entered an order increasing discipline to a suspension of forty-eight months in lieu of granting leave to appeal.