In re Cobb

ORR, Judge.

On appeal, petitioner assigns as error the Board’s decision rendering a disciplinary sanction of a five-year license suspension suspended with probation and a 90-day active suspension. Petitioner contends this sanction constitutes punishment for his violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 and violates the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy on the grounds that he has already been punished for these federal crimes. U.S. Const, amend. V; N.C. Const, art. I, § 19. We disagree.

The scope of our review is governed by the North Carolina Administrative Procedure Act which provides…