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Welsey Snipes to be sentenced two weeks too late

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local story, a "federal judge has set a sentencing date for actor Wesley Snipes, who was convicted Feb. 1 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file tax returns" for late April 2008.  Here are more details:Senior U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges set a hearing for April 24 to sentence Snipes and his codefendants Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas Rosile.  Snipes, Kahn and Rosile were each charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud and one count of aiding and abetting the making of a false and fraudulent claim as part of an alleged tax fraud scheme.  Snipes also was charged with six counts of willfully failing to file federal income tax returns. Jurors acquitted Snipes of the felony counts, but convicted Kahn and Rosile...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).