Piloff v. Lipson

This is another application for an order quashing subpoenas issued by Milton Lipson, Commissioner of Accounts.

At the oral argument, before the petitioner submitted his brief, his attorney stated that he would demonstrate a legal distinction between this case and my prior Gilmartin decision (Matter of Gilmartin v. Lipson, 34 Misc 2d 998). No discernible distinction has been made. The petitioner in the Gilmartin case was not a public official, but a private citizen, and he too was held obligated to answer to the subpoena issued by the Commissioner of Accounts. So, if the present petitioner,…