Hidalgo v. Sobol

— Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this court pursuant to Education Law § 6510-a [4]) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Education which revoked petitioner’s license to practice medicine in New York.

Petitioner’s criminal conviction of, inter alia, grand larceny in the second degree and 63 counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree was based on his practice over an extended period of time of submitting false Medicaid forms. Upon then being charged and found guilty of professional misconduct, his license to practice medicine was…