Wesley Snipes ordered to jail on tax charges (News)

Wesley Snipes ordered to jail on tax charges
Snipes' next stop is federal jail
Wesley Snipes ordered to surrender in tax case
the judge ruled that The Defendant, Wesley Trent Snipes is ordered and directed to surrender himself for execution of sentence upon receipt of notice from the United States Marshal or the Bureau of Prisons as to where when and to whom he should report for that purpose
Prosecutors had argued that for almost a decade, the actor avoided paying income taxes to the tune of millions of dollars and he was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns and sentenced in 2008. In July of this year a federal appeals court denied actor Snipes claim that his three-year prison sentence for tax evasion was unreasonable
In rendering his decision Friday the judge wrote The Defendant Snipes had a fair trial; he has had a full fair and thorough review of his conviction and sentence by the Court of Appeals and he has had a full fair and thorough review of his present claims during all of which he has remained at liberty The time has come for the judgment to be enforced

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[eugene680]

Wesley Snipes hasn't lost any respect from me at all. He's only guilty of refusing to be a slave to the government.

[togwm]

Just goes to show American tax law is just plain mean spirited!!! ..Wesley..."hang in there buddy"!!!