PEOPLE v. FILACOURIS


95 N.Y.2d 940 (2000)

745 N.E.2d 378

722 N.Y.S.2d 459

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. JAMES FILACOURIS and IRENE FILACOURIS, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Ferri, Jr., Garden City, for James Filacouris, appellant.

John W. Cobb, Tuxedo, for Irene Filacouris, appellant.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, New York City (Jo W. Faber, Preeta D. Bansal, Robert A. Forte and Robin A. Forshaw of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Chief Judge KAYE and Judges SMITH, LEVINE, CIPARICK, WESLEY and ROSENBLATT concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The orders of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

Defendants underreported the amount of liquor they sold, over a four-year period, at their family store in Long Island. As a result, they collected over $200,000 in sales taxes that they did not remit to the State. Each defendant was convicted of 15 counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree...

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