disciplinary matters

Barry J. Peck, of Camillus, N.Y., was expelled from Society membership by the Joint Trial Board, effective Dec. 14, 2001. Peck violated Society Rule of Conduct 506 by failing to comply with the directives of the Professional Ethics Committee in a letter of required corrective action dated Dec. 8, 1995, and a revised letter of required corrective action dated Feb. 14, 2000.

Michael L. Gargiulo of Babylon, N.Y., was automatically expelled from Society membership under the bylaws, effective Nov. 21, 2001. Gargiulo surrendered his license to practice as a certified public accountant in the state of New York on the grounds that he could not successfully defend against the charge of professional misconduct of negligence on more than one occasion (failing to discover, in several different audits of the financial statements of a governmental entity, that a part of said entity was not presented as a discrete unit on the face of the balance sheet of said entity as required by governmental auditing standards).