People v. Filacouris

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 *942counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree (Penal Law § 175.35) arising out of the submission of false tax returns, one count of grand larceny in the second degree (Penal Law § 155.40 [1]), and one count of filing a false sales and…