Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff demonstrated her prima facie entitlement to judgment as a matter of law in this action for civil forfeiture of the defendant's vehicle by establishing that the vehicle "contribute[d] directly and materially to the commission" of the underlying crimes of which he was convicted, and thus constituted an "instrumentality" of those crimes (CPLR 1310 [4]; see CPLR 1311 [1]; Dillon v Farrell,
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