Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, and the case is remitted to the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, for further proceedings pursuant to CPL 460.50 (5).
In order to convict the defendant of criminal contempt in the first degree for failure to answer questions posed to him before the Grand Jury, the People are required to demonstrate that the defendant's answers were "so false and evasive as to be equivalent to no answer at all" (People ex rel. Valenti v McCloskey...
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