As the People concede, defendant was improperly adjudicated a second felony offender since the statute upon which defendant's federal conviction was based (18 USC § 641) proscribed broader conduct than its New York counterpart (Penal Law § 155.30). Although defendant failed to preserve this issue for review on direct appeal as a matter of law (People v Samms,
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