Caputo v. Barber

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the respondent Commissioner of Agriculture and Markets of the State of New York, which denied the petitioner’s application for renewal of his food *1030processing license and imposed $1,000 in fines. The petitioner owns and operates a bakery in Brooklyn, New York. On May 11, 1977, upon learning that a sanitary inspection of his bakery would be made, the petitioner gave the inspector $50 for a favorable report. The inspector led the…