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 Wesley Snipes’ tax scandalCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: KingM on Apr 26th, 2008Wesley Snipes may face up to 3 years jail and a fine of $5 million when his sentence is passed later today. The prosecutors aimed to get Wesley the maximum penalty. He was to become the example of how tax evasion carried severe penalties. Wesley has ...been convicted on 3 counts of failing to file federal income tax returns. He was charged with felony conspiracy counts for participating in a scheme that dismissed the legal foundation of the tax system. |
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 WESLEY SNIPES SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS IN JAILCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: rapvirus on Apr 26th, 2008Actor Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to threesome eld in situation as penalisation for imperfectness to enter his set returns. The person sat stone-faced – patch some in the room gasped – when the declare was read. “I’m rattling compassi...onate for my mistakes and errors. I excuse to my family, the suite and the community,” Snipes said. “I’ve asked the suite to exhibit me compassionateness and the possibleness to attain things right.” Alas, the suite imposed the peak penalisation allowed by law. |
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 Denzel, Woody Extol the Great Wesley SnipesCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: rapvirus on Apr 26th, 2008Woody Harrelson apparently didn't leave his loyalty toward Wesley Snipes out on the basketball court. And Denzel Washington…well, he remembers what it was like to be a struggling actor once. The two-time Oscar winner and Snipes' White Men Can't ...Jump costar were two of nearly three dozen pals, associates and family members who penned requests for leniency on behalf of Snipes, who is awaiting sentencing tomorrow in federal court on misdemeanor charges of willful failure to file tax returns in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Prosecutors looking to throw the book at him have requested the max—three years in prison and a $5 million fine. But Snipes won't be paying the piper quite so much if Harrelson and Washington—not to mention TV gavel-wielders Judge Joe Brown and Judge Greg Mathis, who also proffered testaments to Snipes' good character—have anything to say about it. |
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 Ex-adviser says he warned Snipes on taxesCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: KingM on Jan 21st, 2008A financial adviser has testified that he warned Wesley Snipes that he could get into trouble if he didn’t pay his taxes. Snipes is on trial on charges of tax fraud, conspiracy and willful failure to file tax returns. He faces up to 16 years in pri...son. The 45-year-old actor allegedly stopped filing returns, illegally sought refunds totaling $11 million for 1996 and 1997 taxes paid, and drew fake checks to pay the U.S. Treasury. |
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 Jury selected in Wesley Snipes tax trialCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: Rovtar on Jan 16th, 2008Wesley Snipes may have to waive a claim that he previously received ineffective counsel, a judge said Tuesday after jury selection concluded in the actor’s tax trial. Snipes was initially represented by two lawyers who also defended Michael Vick... in the football player’s dogfighting case. One of them, Daniel Meachum of Atlanta, is one of Snipes’ longest-serving advisers. Both were dismissed by the action star last year, with Snipes saying that he received ineffective counsel and that attorney Billy Martin ignored his case in favor of Vick’s. U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges at the time agreed to delay the trial but called it a ploy. |
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 Wesley Snipes owes the IRS almost $38 milCategory: Cinema & TV - Posted by: Rovtar on Jan 13th, 2008Actor Wesley Snipes filed no tax returns on $37.9 million in income from 1999 to 2004, even after the Internal Revenue Service told him in 2002 that he was under criminal investigation, according to documents filed ahead of Snipes’ tax fraud trial.... The trial was set to begin on Monday in U.S. District Court in Ocala, Florida, 80 miles northwest of Orlando and the celebrity enclave of Isleworth, where prosecutors say Snipes lived at the time of the suspected fraud. Snipes, 45, was charged in a 2006 indictment along with a known tax protester and a former accountant whom the U.S. Justice Department said had been barred by a federal court from preparing other people’s tax returns. |
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 Snipes’ legal team files motion against judgeCategory: Other - Posted by: KingM on Jan 7th, 2008Wesley Snipes is trying again to have his federal tax-evasion trial moved from this central Florida city. Snipes’ lawyer, Robert Barnes, filed a motion with a federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday, arguing that U.S. District Judge William T. H...odges erred last month when he denied Snipes’ motions to relocate and postpone the trial. The actor’s legal team argued Snipes cannot get a fair trial in Ocala, located about 80 miles north of Orlando. Snipes previously filed two motions to dismiss or transfer the trial because of racial prejudices. |
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