People v. Filacouris

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the County Court, Nassau County (LaPera, J.), rendered October 13, 1998, convicting him of grand larceny in the second degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (15 counts), and filing a false sales and compensating use tax return, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law and as a matter of discretion in the interest of justice, by vacating the conviction for filing a false sales and compensating use tax return, vacating the sentence imposed thereon, and dismissing that…