Harry Helmsley

Hotel tycoons Harry and Leona Helmsley and two of their former financial advisers proclaimed their innocence Thursday as the state accused them of tax evasion, conspiracy, scheming to defraud and falsifying business records. The Helmsleys, Joseph V. Licari, senior vice president and chief financial officer of their Helmsley Enterprises, and Frank J.

Harry and Leona Helmsley, the billionaire baron and baroness of the New York hotel business, are expected to be indicted today on charges of income tax evasion, their lawyers said Wednesday.