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- Title: Matter William Dovale
- Author : Supreme Court of New York
- Release Date : January 07, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a determination of the Secretary of State of the State of New York, dated December 24, 1980, which, after a hearing, inter alia, revoked petitioners license as a real estate broker. Determination confirmed and proceeding dismissed on the merits, with costs. Although the actions underlying the disciplinary charges are not acts for which petitioners license as a real estate broker was required, they may be considered in determining petitioners untrustworthiness and incompetency as a broker. That fact does not prevent the Secretary of State from asserting jurisdiction through a disciplinary proceeding. While "disciplinary action by the Secretary of State should be taken only where there is an adverse effect upon the public at large", "there may be situations in which * * * a brokers business practices or business methods * * * are so devious as to indicate clearly that he would not deal fairly with the public and, therefore, disciplinary action under section 441-c of Real Property Law for demonstrating untrustworthiness might be warranted". (Matter of Stowell v Cuomo, 52 N.Y.2d 208, 212, 213.) This is such a case. Substantial evidence was produced at the hearing to show that petitioner, acting on behalf of a home construction corporation, regularly engaged in the practice of submitting fraudulent contracts and loan applications to banks in order to obtain larger mortgages than might otherwise be available. In view of the facts and circumstances of this case, the revocation of petitioners license is not so disproportionate to the offenses as to be shocking to ones sense of fairness (see Matter of Pell v Board of Educ., 34 N.Y.2d 222). Damiani, J.P., Titone, Mangano and Gibbons, JJ., concur.