MATTER OF SALEEBY v. SAFIR


289 A.D.2d 60 (2001)

734 N.Y.S.2d 139

In the Matter of DENNIS SALEEBY, Petitioner, v. HOWARD SAFIR, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided December 11, 2001.


The proof adduced of petitioner's business associations with members of an organized crime family, constituted substantial evidence of petitioner's lack of fitness to possess a firearm. We perceive no basis upon which to disturb the hearing officer's finding that petitioner did not credibly testify as to his purported ignorance of the criminal backgrounds of the organized crime figures he employed at his nightclub (see, Matter of Berenhaus v Ward,

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