In re the Arbitration between New York State Department of Taxation & Finance & Public Employees Federation

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Teresi, J.), entered April 25, 1996 in Albany County, which denied petitioner’s application pursuant to CPLR 7511 to vacate an arbitration award.

On April 10, 1992, Stanley Valenti was suspended without pay from his position as a Tax Compliance Agent III and served with a notice of discipline charging him with six counts of offering a false instrument for filing, official misconduct, violating the Public Officers Law and unauthorized computer access. Valenti filed a disciplinary grievance and the matter proceeded to arbitration under the collective…