Bell v. New York State Board of Regents

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (initiated in this Court pursuant to Education Law § 6510 [5]) to review a *539determination of respondent which revoked petitioner’s license to practice accountancy in New York.

In February 2004, the Department of Education charged petitioner, a certified public accountant licensed since 1986, with professional misconduct for having committed acts constituting federal felonies (see Education Law § 6509 [5] [a] [ii]). In 1993, petitioner and Franklin Boykoff formed an accounting firm formalized by an equal partnership and corporation. In 2001, petitioner…