Best v. Larkin

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 which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

During the course of an investigation in which confidential information was received, correction officials discovered that petitioner, together with members of his family and other inmates, participated in a scheme to commit tax fraud in Maryland. Specifically, petitioner assisted in obtaining the…