A federal judge last Friday postponed Nassau County Legislator Roger Corbin’s tax evasion trial until Feb. 8. The trial, originally set to begin on Oct. 19, had been rescheduled to Nov. 30.

Trial date changes, U.S. District Court officials said, often occur in federal cases like this one.

Corbin, 62, is accused of evading taxes on $226,000 in income that he allegedly received from a developer involved in the Town of North Hempstead Community Development Agency’s $60 million New Cassel Revitalization Project, and for lying to federal officers.

According to a court affidavit, Corbin reported income of $575,873 on his federal tax returns from 2005 to 2007, when his income for those years was actually $801,873. Federal officers also claim that Corbin obstructed justice when he lied about the taxes during an interview with FBI and IRS agents at his Westbury home last November.

Corbin pleaded not guilty in federal court on June 9 to three counts of fraud and one count of lying to federal agents. But federal prosecutors also charged him with three additional counts of tax evasion on Nov. 13, just weeks after he submitted amended tax forms to the IRS and admitted that the $226,000 he received from the developer between 2005 and 2007 was income.

According to court documents, prosecutors also believe that Corbin’s attorneys, Thomas Liotti and Jennifer McCann, helped him prepare the tax returns, which prompted them to file the additional charges. The prosecutors also called for Liotti and McCann to be disqualified from the case.

Liotti said, however, that the returns were only mailed from his Garden City office, and they were prepared by Corbin’s accountant, Peter Goldman, for Corbin and his wife, Regina. “These charges fit under the category of no good deed goes unpunished,” Liotti said.

“The irony is amazing: When you try in good faith to comply with the law, they still penalize you and then want to throw our attorneys off the case,” added Regina Corbin. “What country are we in? I did not realize that the Long Island Rail Road has stops inside of the federal courthouse.”

Corbin pleaded not guilty to the additional charges in federal court on Nov. 16.