Bhatt v. DeBuono

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this Court pursuant to Public Health Law § 230-c [5]) to review a determination of respondent Administrative Review Board for Professional Medical Conduct which revoked petitioner’s license to practice medicine in New York.

Petitioner was convicted upon his plea of guilty to the reduced charge of insurance fraud in the fourth degree, a class E felony (see, Penal Law § 176.15), in satisfaction of an indictment alleging 111 counts of fraud against petitioner. Petitioner was sentenced to five years’ probation, ordered to make restitution of…