J.D. is a licensed Certified Public Accountant and owned her own licensed CPA firm. On November 26, 2018, J.D. signed an Agreed Consent Order (“Agreed Consent Order” or “ACO”) with the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy (the “Board”) which stated in part that the “ACO may be subject to disclosure pursuant to Board Rule 519.93. The Board will disclose the terms of this ACO. Respondent’s name will be published in the Texas State Board Report, but not on the Board’s website.” J.D. engaged Bertolino LLP to represent her when the Board published her name and a summary of her Agreed Consent Order on the Board’s website, including the Texas State Board Report and License Lookup.
We sent a demand letter to the Board requesting that it remove J.D.’s name and a summary of the ACO from the Board’s website or face a presentation to the full Board that it is violating the terms and conditions of the ACO. The appearance before the Board for the purpose of making a presentation on this matter was not necessary after they complied with the demand letter, and deleted J.D.’s name and a summary of the ACO from the Board’s website.