Wesley Snipes released after 3 years for MISDEMEANOR conviction

[ShootSpeeders]

First time offenders don't do 3 years for a misdemeanor conviction!!!! But the judge considered him not just a tax evader but a tax denier and threw the book at him.

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Actor Wesley Snipes released from prison - CNN.com

Fri April 5, 2013

(CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being convicted on tax charges in February 2010.
The release to a supervised residential location in New York occurred Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN.
Snipes, 50, who starred in the "Blade" action movies and "White Men Can't Jump," had been serving time at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. A jury convicted him of willfully failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Snipes was acquitted of felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
In June 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his sentence, which he had argued was too harsh for a misdemeanor conviction.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

You don't mess with the Federal Government and while if you are quiet about not paying taxes you probably will get away with it, if you go public and are a public figure you will get the horns.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Don't f*ck with the Bankers collection arm: The IRS.

 

[Mr. H.]

The dude didn't abide.

 

[Noomi]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

 

[Rozman]

Th tax thing and a few bad movies will get you in trouble.

 

[Connery]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Not a smart move. He still has a tax liability to reconcile and he will not make money to pay it off sitting in the pokey.

 

[poet]

First time offenders don't do 3 years for a misdemeanor conviction!!!! But the judge considered him not just a tax evader but a tax denier and threw the book at him.

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Actor Wesley Snipes released from prison - CNN.com

Fri April 5, 2013

(CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being convicted on tax charges in February 2010.
The release to a supervised residential location in New York occurred Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN.
Snipes, 50, who starred in the "Blade" action movies and "White Men Can't Jump," had been serving time at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. A jury convicted him of willfully failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Snipes was acquitted of felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
In June 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his sentence, which he had argued was too harsh for a misdemeanor conviction.

absolutely. Double standard.

 

[Harry Dresden]

First time offenders don't do 3 years for a misdemeanor conviction!!!! But the judge considered him not just a tax evader but a tax denier and threw the book at him.

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Actor Wesley Snipes released from prison - CNN.com

Fri April 5, 2013

(CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes has been released from a federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being convicted on tax charges in February 2010.
The release to a supervised residential location in New York occurred Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN.
Snipes, 50, who starred in the "Blade" action movies and "White Men Can't Jump," had been serving time at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. A jury convicted him of willfully failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Snipes was acquitted of felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
In June 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his sentence, which he had argued was too harsh for a misdemeanor conviction.

thats good.....Stallone wants him to be in Expendables 3.....

 

[JOSweetHeart]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Not a smart move. He still has a tax liability to reconcile and he will not make money to pay it off sitting in the pokey.

I agree. One of my cousins once went to jail for falling behind in his child support payments and I thought to myself "How can a person get caught up when they are in jail instead of working a job in order to get caught up?"

God bless you and my cousin always!!!

Holly

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Hey stupid. Snipes didn't steal any money. The govt stole money from him and he said no.

You need to change your name to Paid Govt Shill.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Hey stupid. Snipes didn't steal any money. The govt stole money from him and he said no.

You need to change your name to Paid Govt Shill.

Dumb ass taxes are not theft.

 

[Noomi]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Hey stupid. Snipes didn't steal any money. The govt stole money from him and he said no.

You need to change your name to Paid Govt Shill.

No one steals money from you, unless you are also a tax cheat?

 

[Noomi]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Hey stupid. Snipes didn't steal any money. The govt stole money from him and he said no.

You need to change your name to Paid Govt Shill.

Dumb ass taxes are not theft.

People like him don't understand that. You have to drill it into their thick skulls.

 

[Oldguy]

Snipes bought into the Section 861 bullshit and paid the price. Tax protestors who use that "logic" have never won a court case. His codefendants got 10 years and 4 1/2 years.

We've got similar morons here on these boards who claim taxation is theft, or it's un-Constitutional, or that they are immune from the laws because they are "sovereign citizens."

Whatever bogus theory idiots dream up to keep from paying their fair share of the taxes will inevitably land them in the same place as Snipes.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Hey stupid. Snipes didn't steal any money. The govt stole money from him and he said no.

You need to change your name to Paid Govt Shill.

I sense there must be this epic sort of battle going on inside your head right now.

You must defend Snipes, because he's a "tax protester". But he's black - which means he must be inferior.

You must be very torn.

 

[JoeB131]

You don't mess with the Federal Government and while if you are quiet about not paying taxes you probably will get away with it, if you go public and are a public figure you will get the horns.

Yes, if you go out and admit your guilt publically and brag about it, you are probably going to get a harsher sentence.

Personally, I think he should have gotten three years just for making Demolition Man.

 

[rightwinger]

Seven MILLION in unpaid taxes and the OP thinks he did nothing wrong?

Three years wasn't enough. Pay your damned taxes and you won't get thrown in jail.

Hey stupid. Snipes didn't steal any money. The govt stole money from him and he said no.

You need to change your name to Paid Govt Shill.

Al Capone went to prison for not paying taxes.....so can Snipes

 

[Skull Pilot]

You don't mess with the Federal Government and while if you are quiet about not paying taxes you probably will get away with it, if you go public and are a public figure you will get the horns.

Unless you are a member of Congress that is.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Dumb ass taxes are not theft.

Of course they are and only a Paid Govt Shill like you would say otherwise.