He was requested-and refused to reply-as to whether he had made or agreed to make such payments to any of several named individuals, as to whether he had hired or paid nonlawyers to arrange settlements of his instances with insurance coverage firms and as to whether his accomplice or associate Rothenberg had been indicted for and had pleaded responsible to violations of sections 270-a and 270-d of the Penal Law, Consol.Laws, c.