Wesley Sentenced To 3 Years Jail
April 25, 2008 by staralicious
Filed under Wesley Snipes
Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns — the maximum requested by federal prosecutors.
“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,” said Assistant Attorney General Nathan J. Hochman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
Federal prosecutors said the actor for nearly a decade escaped paying more than $15 million in income tax returns by sending money to overseas accounts, though they acknowledged in court that the amount is in dispute.
Before the sentencing, the actor asked the court to show mercy and offered three checks totaling $5 million as a gesture of good will.
The payments were accepted, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Scotland Morris said it was not enough.
Snipes’ attorneys are set to appeal the sentence.
Snipes has previously claimed racism as the reason for the charges, which would have been fair enough, of that was the truth. To cry racism as a means of cover for his own greed, makes light of genuine racism.
Justice has been served.
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