Wesley Snipes Convicted on Tax Charges
To quote from one of Wesley Snipes’ Blade films, “You do not know who you are messing with!” That Wesley, goes double when you mess with the Internal Revenue Service. Despite the passionate pleas of fellow actors who stood up for his character, Snipes drew a sentence of three years in prison Thursday for willfully failing to file tax returns.
Associated Press notes that prosecutors made an example out of Snipes, who threw his lot in with “tax protesters” and tried in vain to claim the government can’t legally tax us. Prosecutors gave him a year for each willful …read more
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