Wesley Snipes Gets Maximum Penalty For Not Paying Taxes
April 24, 2008 - Blade actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years prison in Florida on tax evasion charges after a jury found him guilty in February.
Wesley Snipes, 45, failed to file tax returns from 1999 to 2004 resulting in the government claiming he owed nearly $3 million dollars. However, his attorneys claim that he owes only $228,000.
His lawyers requested that U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges limit their client’s sentence in a hearing this morning. They thought he should get no prison time and no fine. Judge William Terrell Hodges laid down the harshest possible sentence Thursday against Snipes.
Snipes was acquitted of three other similar misdemeanors as well as two felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy.
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