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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 18

Certiorari to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to review said order was denied March 23, 1931. T h e evidence further shows that on June 9, 1937, t h e Supreme Court of Illinois entered an order striking the name of respondent Tinkoff from the rolls of attorneys of this State. T h e rules of professional conduct of the American Institute of Accountants and of the Illinois Society of Certified Public Accountants were received in evidence. In short, this respondent, a Certified Public Accountant, certified by the University of Illinois has been found guilty by a criminal court of criminal offenses of such a nature as are peculiarly reprehensible in a public accountant because the crimes were committed in the very services which, as a public accountant, he was employed to render. T h e Treasury Department of the United States found him guilty of other offenses of like nature. T h e respondent was not only a member of the accountancy profession, holding the certificate of Certified Public Accountant, but was also a member of the Bar of this State. If any one should have appreciated fully the nature of the responsibility which rests upon public accountants, this respondent should. Under any reasonable standard of professional conduct, this respondent is guilty of a gross violation thereof and his certificate as a Certified Public Accountant, should be revoked. T h e respondent has not seen fit, though given ample opportunity to do so, to submit argument, either oral or written, in support of any of his objections, all of which, in the opinion of the Committee, were without merit. Respondent was given a continuance of one week from the date originally fixed for the beginning of t h e hearing. After the conclusion of the first session of the hearing, the hearing was continued, at the respondent's request, from November 19 to December 10, 1937. As the time approached for the resumption of the hearing, the Committee was importuned by motions of respondent for further continuances. These motions, with their supporting affidavits, were carefully considered by the Committee in the light of the interests of all parties concerned and were denied and respondent duly notified thereof. Upon the resumption of the hearing on December 10, respondent made no appearance before the Committee, but on said day the respondent made a motion in the Circuit Court of Cook County for a preliminary injunction to restrain the Committee from proceeding with the hearing. N o restraining order, however, has been served on this Committee or any member thereof. F r o m all the evidence in the matter submitted to the Committee on Accountancy, the transcript of which proceedings and exhibits adduced are submitted herewith and made a part of this report, the Committee finds: (1) T h a t for t h e purposes of this proceeding, it had jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof and of the person of the respondent; and that (2) T h e said respondent was guilty of unprofessional conduct within the meaning of Section 5 of "An Act to Regulate the Profession of Public Accountants," approved May 15, 1903, as amended. T h e Committee recommends that respondent's certificate of Certified Public Accountant No. 466 issued by the University of Illinois in 1923 be revoked and that his name be stricken from the rolls of accountants certified by the University of Illinois. f W I L L I A M E. BMTTON

Committee on Accountancy \ G. P . TUTTLE

IH. M. GRAY

A transcript of the record of the hearing before the Committee on this case and all exhibits received in evidence were likewise submitted and were given to the Secretary of the Board for safe keeping.

On motion of Mr. Karraker, this matter was referred to the Committee on General Policy for consideration and report.

S P E C I A L STATE A P P R O P R I A T I O N F O R E M E R G E N C Y BUILDING P R O G R A M (2) P u r s u a n t to the instructions of the Board at its meeting on February i i , 1938 (Minutes, page 628), I wrote the Governor^ formally presenting t o him the building problem created by t h e closing of University Hall and requested