Procida Tile owner sentenced on tax charges

Tile company owner Frank Procida was formally sentenced Wednesday in Suffolk County Court to 30 days in jail for failing to pay more than $1 million in sales taxes.

Procida, 48, of Bay Shore, who heads the tile store chain that bears his name, already paid $1.6 million in restitution. Of that, $1.072 million was sales tax he had not paid the state, and the remainder was interest and penalties.

State Supreme Court Justice Robert W. Doyle also sentenced Procida to 5 years' probation. 

He pleaded guilty last June to second-degree grand larceny and offering a false instrument for filing. Prosecutors said he collected more than $1 million in sales taxes and kept it.