In re the Claim of Johnson

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed January 25, 1984, which ruled that claimant was entitled to receive benefits.

Claimant was employed as a clerk by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York from January 5, 1981 until his *1034discharge on December 3, 1982. After work on Friday, October 29, 1981, while drinking with a co-worker, the latter proposed that they steal blank checks from their employer. Claimant, who did not take this suggestion seriously, neither reported this and apparently several similar conversations to the employer nor participated in the…