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Federal prosecutors going hard after Wesley Snipes' tax "advisors"

By Douglas A. Berman

This local article provides the latest news coming from the upcoming sentencing of Wesley Snipes and his co-defendants for tax evasion.  Here are some details:Federal prosecutors are seeking a prison term of 10 years for Eddie Ray Kahn, one of two co-defendants of actor Wesley Snipes in a tax evasion scheme. In a sentencing memo filed Sunday, Robert E. O'Neill, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, called on Senior U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges to sentence Eddie Ray Kahn to 10 years in prison. O'Neill also sought a sentence for a second co-defendant, Douglas Rosile, of between six and eight years. On Feb. 1, an Ocala jury found Snipes guilty of three counts of willfully failing to file tax returns, but also acquitted him of felony conspiracy and tax fraud charges and three additional counts of failure to file...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).