Wesley Snipes goes Down For Tax Evasion
Posted on 24. Apr, 2008 by spencer in Crime, Film
(Photo from Bossip.)
Homeboy could slay a vampire, but not his taxes. Actor Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, having been found guilty on "three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file federal tax returns."
Snipes made a $5 million payment to the treasury on Thursday, but prosecutors called it a grandstanding move.
"It"ll be a fraction of what he owes," said Assistant U.S. Attorney M. Scotland Morris, who made the argument for the government.
Morris said a rough estimate of Snipes' outstanding tax liability, with penalties and interest, will exceed $20 million.
"Snipes' long prison sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him and his co-defendants, Kahn and Rosile, as inmates in prison," said Nathan J. Hochman, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Tax Division, in a news release.
Isn't that how Capone went down? Now the only thing up for debate is whether Snipes will be a top or a bottom. (I'm or course referring to bunk bed options...)
Maybe we all need to go to his trial and demand that in order for the trial to begin, they need to show us the written law that he actually broke; and then it’ll be so quiet, we can hear the crickets chirping in the distance.