Matter of Brown v. Venettozzi

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Correction officials conducted an investigation into two checks that appeared to be issued from the checking account of the Sullivan Correctional Facility and that had been altered and made payable to the relatives of petitioner and another inmate. The investigation uncovered further indications that…