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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[ M a r c h 18

Student Alumni:

Welfare:

KARL A. MEYER, Chairman, HAROLD A. POGUE, LOUIS C.

MOSCHEL.

Louis C. MOSCHEL, Chairman, JAMES M. CLEARY, HAROLD A. POGUE.

Agriculture: HAROLD A. POGUE, Chairman, ORVILLE M. KARKAKER, Mrs. NELUE V. FREEMAN.

MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT WILLARD

The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

REVOCATION OF C.P.A. CERTIFICATE OF PAYSOFF TINKOFF

( i ) Pursuant to the instructions of the Board at its meeting on July 16, 1937 (Minutes, page 320), the Committee on Accountancy held a hearing on the formal complaint of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants against Mr. Paysoff Tinkoff, holder of Illinois Certified Public Accountant Certificate No. 466, issued in 1923, and submits the following report and recommendation:

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ACCOUNTANCY IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF THE ILLINOIS SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS AGAINST PAYSOFF TINKOFF

On July 2, 1937, there was filed with the University of Illinois through its Committee on Accountancy, by the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants, a corporation, hereinafter referred to as the complainant, a complaint asking that the Certificate of Certified Public Accountant No. 466, which, in 1923, had been issued by the University of Illinois to Paysoff Tinkoff, hereinafter referred to as the respondent, be revoked. The complaint charged the respondent with unprofessional conduct in that: (1) On June 15, 1934, the respondent, Paysoff Tinkoff, was convicted of certain violations of the Income Tax Laws of the United States, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, and that sentence and judgment were passed upon the respondent on July 30, 1934, and that said judgment had become final; and that (2) On June 9, 1937, the Supreme Court of Illinois, on an information to disbar said Paysoff Tinkoff, entered an order forever disbarring said Paysoff Tinkoff from the practice of law in any of the courts of the State of Illinois. On September 8, 1937, the complainant filed an amendment to its complaint, charging that a motion for a preliminary injunction, made by this respondent in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to restrain Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from enforcing an order suspending said Paysoff Tinkoff from practicing before the Treasury Department of the United States, on November 24, 1930, was denied and that said order had become final. On July 3, 1937, the Committee on Accountancy transmitted said complaint to A. C. Willard, President of the University of Illinois. On July 20, 1937, the University of Illinois, through its Board of Trustees, authorized and directed the Committee on Accountancy, consisting of the undersigned, to hold a hearing on this complaint and to make a report with recommendations for action to the University of Illinois. Pursuant to such authorization and direction, the Committee fixed the time and place of the hearing for Friday, November 12, 1937, at 10 a.m. in Room 7, Third Floor, Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. A copy of the complaint of the Illinois Society and of the amendment thereto and a notice of the time and place of the hearing thereon were duly and personally served upon the respondent, Paysoff Tinkoff, on October 5, 1937. Respondent, by his attorney, Julius Rieger, on November 6, 1937, entered his general appearance in the matter and asked for a continuance. The Committee continued the hearing to 10 a.m. November 19, 1937, to convene at the place designated in the original notice. On November 19, 1937, the hearing was begun. The complainant appeared by its attorney, Matthew Mills, of the firm of Defrees, Buckingham, Jones and Hoffman, and the respondent appeared in