Valenza v. Emmelle Coutier, Inc.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louise Gruner Gans, J.), entered December 30, 1999, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and denied defendants’ motion for sanctions, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The IAS court, in granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, properly determined, based on plaintiffs manifest failure to report her income from defendants to the IRS, that plaintiff, who was fired from her employment with defendants, knew she was being paid “off-the-books” and thus, pursuant to an illegal contract.…