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< Go back to Immigration Daily U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review Office of the Director 5107 Leesburg Pike, Suite 2400 Falls Church, Virginia 22041 NEWS RELEASE Contact: Office of Public Affairs (703)305-0289,
Fax: (703) 605-0365 Internet:
www.usdoj.gov/eoir October 3, 2000 EOIR Suspends Seven More Immigration Practitioners Disciplinary
Actions Taken under Amended Rules of
Professional Conduct The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) has
formally suspended seven more attorneys from practicing before the Immigration
Courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals (the Board), and the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, after suspending five others in August. Their
suspensions are disciplinary actions taken by EOIR under the recently amended Rules
of Professional Conduct for Immigration Practitioners, provided in Title 8 of
the Code of Federal Regulations (8 CFR Parts 3 and 292). The Board of Immigration Appeals ordered immediate
suspensions of the attorneys named below, for the reasons stated, after EOIR’s
Office of the General Counsel filed petitions for immediate suspension and
Notices of Intent to Discipline on grounds of professional conduct rule
violations arising out of sanctions imposed by other jurisdictions: Charles H. Bowser, suspended by the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals after pleading guilty in the U.S. District Court of
the Eastern District of Virginia to a felony charge of executing a document
containing false statements; Alake Johnson-Ford, disbarred by the District of Columbia
Court of Appeals; Nicholas Grapsas, suspended for 6 months by the
Supreme Court of Wisconsin; David Smith Nunes, suspended for 3 years by the
Supreme Court of Florida; Sylvia Anita Ryan, suspended for 4 months by the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals and suspended for 1 year by Second
Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court; – more – Attorneys Suspended – Page 2 Paige Elizabeth Samsky, disbarred by the Supreme Court
of the State of Georgia; and Sheldon Irwin Walker, disbarred by the First Judicial
Department of the New York Supreme Court following his conviction in the U.S.
District Court, Southern District of New York, of Conspiracy to Make False
Statements and Commit Fraud, False Statements, and Mail Fraud. The amended rules, which were published in the Federal
Register on June 27, 2000, and which became effective on July 27, include
provisions specifying grounds for disciplinary action, requirements for
receiving and investigating complaints, and procedures for conducting hearings.
The rule also authorizes the Board to immediately suspend a practitioner who
has been subject to disbarment, suspension, or resignation with an admission of
misconduct as imposed by a State or Federal court, pending a summary proceeding
and final sanction. In the matters cited above, the Board’s orders direct
the suspended attorneys “to promptly notify, in writing, any clients with cases
currently pending before the Board, the Immigration Courts, or the Service that
the respondent has been suspended from practicing before these bodies.” Each suspended attorney also received a Notice of
Intent to Discipline directing him or her to respond within 30 days to the
charges. In the response, each may state his or her defenses against the
imposition of the recommended final discipline and seek a hearing. EOIR announces these actions to inform the public of
its ongoing efforts to prevent or correct misconduct and misrepresentation by
immigration practitioners. EOIR also posts a list of suspended and expelled practitioners
on its Web site at www.usdoj.gov/eoir. –
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