Bar Ass'n of Baltimore City v. Snyder
| Court | Court of Appeals of Maryland |
| Writing for the Court | SINGLEY |
| Citation | 331 A.2d 47,273 Md. 534 |
| Parties | The BAR ASSOCIATION OF BALTIMORE CITY v. Alvin I. SNYDER. Misc. (Subtitle BV) 3. |
| Decision Date | 03 February 1975 |
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v.
Alvin I. SNYDER.
Martin B. Greenfeld, Baltimore, for Alvin I. Snyder.
Francis J. Gorman, Baltimore, for Bar Association.
Argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.
SINGLEY, Judge.
In October, 1971, Alvin I. Snyder, former president and chairman of the board of Uptown Federal Savings and Loan Association (Uptown) and a member of the Maryland bar since 1950, was indicted under a four count indictment, returned by the grand jury to the United States DistrictCourt for the District of Maryland. He entered pleas of nolo contendere to counts two and four, which had charged him respectively with violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1006 (1961) and 2 (1951) (receiving money from a federal savings and loan association with intent to defraud; aiding and abetting) and
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of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 (1948) and 2 (1951) (making a false statement of material fact in a statement to a government agency, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board; aiding and abetting). Snyder was fined $10,000.00.On 30 May 1974, The Bar Association of Baltimore City filed in this Court a petition charging Snyder with professional misconduct and seeking disciplinary action. We referred the petition, pursuant to Maryland Rule BV36, to a panel of three judges of the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Judges Charles D. Harris, J. Harold Grady and David Ross, for hearing and recommendation.
The matter came on for hearing on a stipulation of facts, supplemented by Snyder's testimony, which can be briefly summarized. Our usury law, Maryland Code (1957, 1972 Repl.Vol.) Art. 49, §§ 1-11 was substantially revised by Chapter 453 of the Laws of 1968, effective 1 July 1968. Particularly significant is the definition of interest contained in § 1 and the establishment of a maximum interest rate of 8% by § 3. 1 After our decision in B. F. Saul Co. v. West End Park, 250 Md. 707, 727-728, 246 A.2d 591, 603-604 (1968), holding that fees and charges retained by the lender must be included in the computation[331 A.2d 48] putation of the rate of interest, it was no longer possible for Uptown Federal to retain charges made for credit reports and appraisals in cases where a borrower was being charged 8% interest.
Snyder, as president and chairman of the board of Uptown; Joseph Sussman and David Janofsky, vice presidents of Uptown, and Martin Gilbert,...
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