New York State Education
Department
Office of the Professions
Summaries of Regents Actions on Professional Misconduct and
Discipline
July 18, 1997
Terms under which
this information is provided.
Acupuncture - Certified Social Work - Dentistry
- Professional Engineering and Land Surveying -
Nursing - Pharmacy -
Podiatry - Psychology -
Public Accountancy - Respiratory Therapy
Acupuncture
Guo-Guang Chen, Flushing,
NY
Profession: Acupuncture; Lic. No. 000190; Cal.
No. 16581
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: $1,000 fine, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of delegating
professional responsibilities to an unlicensed person.
Certified
Social Work
Lawrence Arthur Malakie,
Batavia, NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
004211; Cal. No. 12605
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Indefinite suspension of not less than
18 months and until terminated as set forth in consent order
application, after the period of actual suspension, probation 1
year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
having sexual intercourse with a client.
Ronald W. LaDuca, Lewiston,
NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
033337; Cal. No. 16415
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$750 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
abandoning a patient in need of immediate professional care.
Robert J. Caruana, Potsdam,
NY
Profession: Certified Social Worker; Lic. No.
036443; Cal. No. 16499
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Suspension for not less than 1 year and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application - upon
termination of suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
engaging in physical contact of a sexual nature with another
certified social worker who was his supervisee at his place of
practice, engaging in a pattern of inappropriate conduct with
female patients, inappropriately expressing anger toward patients
during therapy sessions, using and attempting to use hypnosis
despite lacking adequate training in hypnosis, making
inappropriate statements to patients about his own superiority as
a therapist and their inferiority, forcing the discussion of a
sexual abuse issue with a patient against her wishes, and failing
to pick up on a patient's statement that she was drinking
heavily and failing to offer treatment for that.
Dentistry
Michael C. Pignato, Penfield,
NY
Profession: Dentistry; Lic. No. 033689; Cal. No.
14388
Regents Action Date: July 18,1997
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of failing to
record the issuance of a prescription for a controlled substance
in the patient's treatment record.
Jeffrey Leon, Stony Brook,
NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 034458; Cal. No.
16704
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of
administering Epinephrine to a patient when he knew the patient
had a sensitivity to it.
Professional
Engineering and Land Surveying
Victor B. Buckstad,
Washingtonville, NY
Profession: Professional Engineer; Lic. No.
044293; Cal. No. 16498
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
affixing his seal to plans that incorrectly indicated the
location of test pits and of incorrectly stating the results of
deep pits tests.
Nursing
Lorleen Yvonne Harry, Cambria
Heights, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 229366; Cal. No. 13994
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of practicing
the profession of nursing while her ability to practice was
impaired by mental disability.
Elizabeth Wallace
Worthey-Rivers, New York, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
063396; Cal. No. 14682
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of charting
errors, verbally stating that she administered cyclomydril to an
infant patient at three times when she had not, and failing to
administer cyclomydril to two patients as required.
David Jonathan Moeri, Derry,
NH
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 215193, 440523; Cal. Nos. 15012,
15013
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of last 1
year of suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of failing to
prevent the infusion of an incorrect intravenous solution and
incorrectly charting the infusion.
Mary Cox Scott, Pompey,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 158656; Cal. No. 15015
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, 100 hours of public service.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of failing to
prevent the infusion of an incorrect intravenous solution.
Gilberto Quiles-Rivera,
Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
215040; Cal. No. 15514
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Annul license.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of submitting
false information to the New York State Education Department on
his application for licensure.
Gregory L. Frazier a/k/a Gregory
Frazier, Bronx, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 270163; Cal. No. 16242
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Attempted Assault in the First Degree, Criminal
Contempt in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a
Controlled Substance in the Seventh Degree, Theft of Services,
Assault in the Third Degree, Criminal Possession of a Controlled
Substance in the Seventh Degree, two counts of Theft of Services,
Criminal Impersonation in the Second Degree, Criminal Sale of a
Controlled Substance in the Fifth Degree.
Jeanne Marcy Shapiro, Monsey,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 361534; Cal. No. 16264
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 6 month suspension, suspension stayed,
probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having
been convicted of Forgery in the Second Degree.
Tammy Alberta Cushman,
Stillwater, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 423856; Cal. No. 16010
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of committing
six documentation and medication administration errors.
Carolyn P. Adanti,
Springville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
164880; Cal. No. 16103
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of willfully
physically abusing clients.
Sylvia Joyce Horton,
Liverpool, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 231827; Cal. No. 16207
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997 (see also
September 1994)
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of committing
three medication administration errors.
Gerald W. Davis, Cooperstown,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 296989; Cal. No. 16217
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of
administering the incorrect drug to repair a wet tap in an
epidural anesthesia.
Cathleen Wales Burr, Phoenix,
AZ
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 234136; Cal. No. 16296
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of
administering the wrong medication to a patient.
Michael Frank Vaughn,
Buffalo, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
203169; Cal. No. 16393
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
placing his hands on a patient's shoulder causing the patient
to fall back into a chair and placing his hands around the
patient's neck.
Eliza Jane Mann, Utica,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
218498; Cal. No. 16479
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years to commence if and when
return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of making
medication administration errors.
Sandra Yvonne Reid a/k/a Sandra Y.
Farrior, Islandia, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 209898, 446986; Cal. Nos. 16484,
16485
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of Insurance Fraud in the Fifth Degree, a class A
misdemeanor.
Irene Ferguson Bacchus, East
Northport, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
091411; Cal. No. 16532
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed; probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of three
specifications of Driving While Intoxicated and failing to
disclose a criminal conviction.
Tanya Ann Gilbert, Rochester,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 174320, 379823; Cal. Nos. 16547,
16548
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Suspension for not less than 1 year and
until terminated as set forth in consent order application - upon
termination of suspension, probation 3 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a Class A
Misdemeanor, and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in
the Third Degree, a Class B Felony.
Heather J. Schoenbauer a/k/a Heather J.
Wilson, Bay Shore, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 209608, 437290; Cal. Nos. 16619,
16620
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of documenting
that controlled drugs were administered to patients when they
were in fact used for her personal use.
Waleska Santiago, Richmond
Hill, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
213096; Cal. No. 16622
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 24 month suspension, execution of last
21 months of suspension stayed, probation 24 months.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of Conspiracy to Devise a Scheme to Defraud and Obtain
Money by False Pretenses.
Barbara A. Clauss, Orchard
Park, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 254352; Cal. No. 16632
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Indefinite suspension until successfully
completes certain course of retraining, indefinite suspension
until terminated as set forth in consent order application - upon
termination of suspensions, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of multiple
medication administration and charting errors.
William George Weber,
Schenevus, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 362076; Cal. No. 16633
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, following the period
of suspension, probation 3 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of diverting
the controlled substance Demerol on more than one occasion.
Annmarie Marrapese a/k/a Annmarie
Bruno, Auburn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 166857, 427100; Cal. Nos. 16643,
16642
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of medication
administration and documentation errors.
Teresa M. Simcox, Owls Head,
NY
Profession: Licensed Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 200229; Cal. No. 16647
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
willfully abusing patients physically and verbally.
Margaret D. Ryniker a/k/a Margaret
D'Alessandro, North Merrick, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 134719, 313787; Cal. Nos. 16658,
16659
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of a Scheme to Defraud in the Second Degree.
Jean-Ann Eckert, Rochester,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
224728; Cal. No. 16661
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997 (see also
February 2000)
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of practicing
while impaired by alcohol and/or drugs, submitting a fraudulent
doctor's note to her employer, and failing to disclose
criminal convictions.
Linda S. Henderson, Buffalo,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 066862, 293078; Cal. Nos. 16672,
16673
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
transposing the blood sugar values of two patients and directing
a nurse to discontinue an order for insulin without clarifying
the order with the patient's physician.
Mary C. Hojnacki, Buffalo,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 266989; Cal. No. 16674
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $750 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
checking the blood at the nurse's station instead of
following hospital policy which required that she positively
identify the intended recipient and verify the blood unit
information at the patient's bedside, while assisting another
nurse in verifying that a particular unit of packed red blood
cells was the proper unit to be transfused into a patient.
Mary C. Strong a/k/a Mary C.
Broome, Poughkeepsie, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
216872; Cal. No. 16693
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of Attempted Receiving Reward for Official Misconduct
in the Second Degree, a Class A Misdemeanor.
Frank Michaels Lafergola a/k/a Frank
Michael Lafergola, Pompano Beach, FL
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 430756; Cal. No. 16697
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: License annulled.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
falsely indicating on his application for licensure as a
registered professional nurse in the State of New York that he
had never previously been found guilty of professional misconduct
or unprofessional conduct in another state.
Sheila Ann Latno, Hamlin,
NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 19184, 420720; Cal. Nos. 16709,
16710
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year to commence if and when
return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of making
medication administration and charting errors.
Paul G. Helm, Vestal, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
185469; Cal. No. 16755
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of falsely
telling a patient that two products were equivalent, telling a
patient that a prescription was not required for a
prescription-required drug, making an unauthorized substitution,
and mislabeling an over-the counter product.
George Joseph Dagis,
Woodstock, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 454043; Cal. No. 16762
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997 (see also
May 2004)
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of Failure to Comply with Firearm Dealer Licensing
Requirements.
Cheryl Lee McKinney, Hudson
Falls, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
229167; Cal. No. 16788
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 12 month suspension with leave to apply
for early termination as set forth in consent order application
upon resumption of practice of nursing following service or
termination of suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
failing to respond to a patient's distress in a timely manner
after being notified by a nurses' aide of the distress,
failing to notify a superior of the deterioration of the
condition of a patient, failing to sign for treatments rendered
to patients, and failing to administer medications.
David Lee Briggs, Binghamton,
NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 328031; Cal. No. 16803
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years to commence if and when
return to practice, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of
mistranscribing a physician's order for a cough syrup,
overlooking a physician's order to reduce the rate of an
intravenous infusion, administering an incorrect intravenous
medication, and signing off on a physician's order indicating
that it had been correctly transcribed when, in fact, a secretary
had mistranscribed it.
Judith De Leo, Staten
Island, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No.
146099; Cal. No. 16110
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admits to charges of forging
prescriptions for controlled substances while on probation.
Mary C. Defreitas-Badlu a/k/a Mary
Defreitas-Haripersaud, Ozone Park, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 157837;
Cal. No. 16666
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of signing out
Meperidine for administration when in fact it was for her
personal use.
Pharmacy
Fritz C. Unger, Lake
Ronkonkoma, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 018951; Cal.
No. 13932
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of holding
for sale drugs later than the date marked upon the label, failing
to prepare and maintain a biennial inventory of all controlled
substances, failing to have a thermometer in the pharmacy
refrigerator, failing to possess the pharmacy handbook, failing
to possess a list of drugs together with their current selling
prices, maintaining the pharmacy in an unsanitary condition,
filling and refilling a prescription without authorization and
failing to indicate the strength prescribed.
Fritz C. Unger d/b/a Conklin's
Pharmacy, 466 Hawkins Avenue, Lake Ronkonkoma, NY
11779
Profession: Retail Pharmacy; Reg. No. 008599;
Cal. No. 13933
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: $1,000 fine, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of holding
for sale drugs later than the date marked upon the label, failing
to prepare and maintain a biennial inventory of all controlled
substances, failing to have a thermometer in the pharmacy
refrigerator, failing to possess the pharmacy handbook, failing
to possess a list of drugs together with their current selling
prices, maintaining the pharmacy in an unsanitary condition,
filling and refilling a prescription without authorization and
failing to indicate the strength prescribed.
Francis Paul A. DiFiglia,
Somerville, MA
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 014140; Cal.
No. 15744
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: No disciplinary penalty be imposed.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of failing to
enter his initials on the daily record of prescriptions filled
and attesting to its accuracy when another pharmacist's
initials incorrectly were listed thereon.
Michael Freed, Longwood,
FL
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 025879; Cal.
No. 15348
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 9 month suspension - upon service of
suspension, probation 2 years to commence upon return to
practice, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
filing false claims for prescriptions that had not been
dispensed.
Halsey Drug Co., Inc., 1827
Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233
Profession: Manufacturer of Drugs and/or
Devices; Reg. No. 101017; Cal. No. 16592
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: $175,000 fine, revocation, execution of
revocation stayed, probation 6 years with right to apply for
early termination of period of probation as set forth in consent
order application.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of
manufacturing batches of a non-controlled drug whose raw
materials had been shipped in interstate commerce with
ingredients not included in licensee's approved Abbreviated
New Drug Application, selling batches of an adulterated drug, and
willfully making false batch production records.
Stephen Pino, Hauppauge,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 032686; Cal.
No. 16623
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of falsely
telling a patient that two products were equivalent, that a
prescription was not required for a prescription-required drug,
making an unauthorized substitution and mislabeling of an
over-the counter product for a prescription-required one.
Thomas Farkas, New York,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 035919; Cal.
No. 16679
Regents Action Date: July 18,1997 (see also
November 2001)
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of,
while employed as a supervising pharmacist, having misbranded
drugs in the drug stock, maintaining no record of repacking drugs
and having the pharmacy not kept in a clean and orderly
manner.
Zanergot Pharmacy, Inc. d/b/a Anatole
Pharmacy, 650 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Profession: Retail Pharmacy; Reg. No. 019931;
Cal. No. 16680
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997 (see also
November 2001)
Action: Censure and Reprimand, $3,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
having misbranded drugs in the drug stock, maintaining no record
of repacking drugs and having the pharmacy not kept in a clean
and orderly manner.
Seung Woo Lee, Hauppauge,
NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 028938; Cal.
No. 16737
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997 (see also November 2004 and December 2008)
Action: Censure and Reprimand, probation 1 year,
$750 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of billing a
patient's insurance company for medications not provided to
the patient or authorized by written prescriptions from the
patient's physician.
Paul A. P. Connell, Tucker,
GA
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 036021; Cal.
No. 16775
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee does not contest charges of
fraudulently obtaining controlled substances from his places of
employment for his own use and fraudulently diluting controlled
substances.
Podiatry
Louis Scotti, Nesconset,
NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 003439; Cal.
No. 15875
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of last 12
months of suspension stayed, probation 24 months, $7,500
fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of one count of
Grand Larceny in the Third Degree and twenty-two counts of
offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree.
Psychology
Marc Rice, Astoria, NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 003903; Cal.
No. 10401
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of verbally
abusing his patient, directing his patient to drink alcoholic
beverages, directing the patient against being alone with her
children, permitting multiple relationships to exist between
himself and his patient, directing his patient to cease
communicating with patient's mother and father, and directing
his patient to have sexual relationships with many people over
the same period of time.
Robert J. Rogers, Millwood,
NY
Profession: Psychologist; Lic. No. 003579; Cal.
No. 16765
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Pursue a course of continuing education,
probation 1 year.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of failing to
reserve an earlier diagnosis that was shown to be incorrect.
Public
Accountancy
Peter Mertz, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
No. 044599; Cal. No. 16637
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 2 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 2 years, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of Operating a Motor Vehicle While Ability Impaired by
Drugs, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance Seventh
Degree, and Possession of a Hypodermic Needle.
Donald Lionel Bunsis,
Merrick, NY; Boca Raton, FL
Profession: Certified Public Accountant; Lic.
(Cert.) No. 019920; Cal. No. 16766
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: Application to surrender license
granted.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of six counts of Mail Fraud, a federal felony.
Respiratory Therapy
John L. Kutzma, Levittown,
NY
Profession: Respiratory Therapist; Lic. No.
004012; Cal. No. 16736
Regents Action Date: July 18, 1997
Action: 1 year suspension, execution of
suspension stayed, probation 1 year, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admits charges of having been
convicted of the Unauthorized Dispensing of a Drug, and knowingly
failing to disclose a criminal conviction before licensure on his
application for licensure.
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