ALBANY - A former Suffolk County Legislator, indicted twice this year on mortgage and insurance fraud charges pleaded not guilty today to a charge in a third indictment alleging he has failed to file state tax returns for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. 

District Attorney Thomas Spota said George Guldi of Westhampton Beach repeatedly failed to file income tax returns with New York State in 2006, 2007 and 2008.  “The defendant filed for an extension for each year including 2008, which gave him to October 15th of each year to file, which he failed to do,” said Spota.

Guldi, 56, an attorney who served as a Suffolk County Legislator from 1994 to 2003, was indicted in August with 16 others for allegedly defrauding lending institutions of millions of dollars by using forged documents, false income information on mortgage applications, false powers of attorney, deed flipping, and straw buyers.

In September, Guldi was arraigned on an indictment charging him with insurance fraud and other crimes related to the theft of insurance money held in escrow to reconstruct his Westhampton Beach home that was destroyed by fire in November of 2008.