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IRS Slices Blade: Wesley Snipes Gets Three Years for Failure to Pay Taxes

By Corey Mitchell

A-list actor Wesley Snipes, who has appeared in dozens of films including the Blade trilogy, Demolition Man, and Passenger 57, was handed a maximum sentence of three years in his failure to file tax returns case Thursday. United States District Judge William Terrell Hodges said Snipes exhibited a "history of contempt over a period of time" for the country's tax laws. He added, "In my mind these are serious crimes, albeit misdemeanors." Assistant Attorney General Nathan J. Hochman of the Justice Department's Tax Division stated, "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." Added United States Attorney Robert O'Neill, "The sentencing court sends the right message to the American taxpayer - you've got to pay your taxes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Hollywood on Trial on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).