Snipes gets the max -- 3 years -- in tax case

[jetdawgg]

OCALA, Florida (CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns -- the maximum requested by federal...

[Old Marine]

Two things all Americans have to do:

1. Pay Taxes.

2. Die.

[ZSKI]

you don't **** with the IRS

[SGT7477]

The money them actors make and can't keep up with taxes they should be put away longer.

[hrscowboy]

Yelp burn his arse if we got too pay the IRS so should he.. What a dumb arse a decade goes by and he still hadnt made arrangements to pay his taxes he got what anyone else would be getting (Jail Time).

[sscjoe]

Took the IRS long enough. They bagged in only 3 yrs for $1200 in tax on $4000. WTF.

[jrhd97]

My only question is..... Will he be the bad arse he plays in the movies ... or will he become someones girl friend :scared:

[Finger]

I don't think prison really solves the problem. I think they should be allowed to work and garnish the hell out of them. That way they get punished and the taxes are paid, especially someone who has the potential he has for making bucks.

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[jrhd97]

I don't think prison really solves the problem. I think they should be allowed to work and garnish the hell out of them. That way they get punished and the taxes are paid, especially someone who has the potential he has for making bucks.

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Didn't they do just that to stoned Willy Nelson?
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[Phantom Winger]

Snipes apparently cut a check for $5 mil to the USG prior to his sentencing.

Bloomberg.com

"Snipes, in refusing to pay taxes, followed tactics employed by so-called tax deniers, the government said. Such people claim the law doesn't require U.S. citizens to pay income tax, often relying on century-old Supreme Court cases and repudiated legal theories to make their case. The Justice Department earlier this year began a nationwide crackdown against the movement, pledging to target tax deniers with criminal and civil cases."

The rest => http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aKNiX4rXIPoA

[darkgreen0311]

Snipes is a bad a*s and has been studying martial arts for years i doubt if anyone tries him and plus federal prison is a joke. He'll be eating steaks and reading movie scripts.





:marine: :flag: SEMPER FI 4 LIFE
YOURS IS NOT TO QUESTION WHY BUT TO DO OR DIE!!!

[gutinstinct]

Snipes got what he deserved and I feel your correct Darkgreen. He is going to eat all the tube steak he wants. Don't be fooled. Federal prison is no joke. You just don't mess with the IRS.:)

[SlingerDun]

Didn't they do just that to stoned Willy Nelson?
</O>Hell yeah after dad IRS popped Sillie Nelson he hashed together an album and crooned "who will buy my memories" at an attempt to appease the IRS. Like to make us think memories was about all he had left, but i doubt it. The commercials with that hair and macram&#233; strap on a junk guitar reminded me of a hippy panhandler who once knew the good life, pathetic. A mere shadow of Barbarosa. Willie would have faired better in California celebrity divorce court.http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/images/icons/icon6.gif


Bobbie Fischer owed taxes on his winnings from Fischer vs Spassky II. 92' Sarajevo. Fischer played despite United Nations sanctions against Yugoslavia and a warning from the United States Treasury Department, which threatened him with severe penalties for playing. Fischer is dead but was smart enough to never again return to the U.S. where he would have been molested.

Snipes the foolish has been action-ego hero reduced to whoring infomercials with Christie and the Chucksterhttp://www.leatherneck.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif still couldn't keep the IRS off his neck.

I've paid quarterly taxes for what seems like forever. The earnings from approx 1 out of every 2 and 3/4 horses trimmed or shod is 'donated' to the IRS. After materials and operating expenses its often 1/2 my gross income. Snipes, Nelson or Fischer could spend a tour FAP'ed out sterilizing the penitentiary ****ters for all i give a damn.

--->Dave

[AAV Crewchief]

My only question is..... Will he be the bad arse he plays in the movies ... or will he become someones girl friend :scared:

He's headed to the "Federal prison system". It's a JOKE and he knows it. Most cut grass, work in laundry facilities and such without even as much as a fence to keep them within the confines of the facility. At Saufley Field in Pensacola, they have a yellow line on the ground that confines them...that is all. Lots of the guys who were kept at Eglin cut the grass on the softball fields at Eglin and Hurlburt. I met a guy named Luis who admitted to me he dealt coke for nearly 20 years and retired only to get rolled over on by a bro who was going to do hard time. Luis got 17 years for being "dimed out". Luis was a hell of a groundskeeper though at Hurlburt Field.

All of these inmates are also required to earn a GED if they do not have one and learn a trade or earn college credits towards a new skill that will make them marketable to an employer once they leave prison. Those are included in the conditions for their release. ( I know all of this because I applied for a teaching position with the Feds system 12 years ago. It was a sweet paying job with early retirement too. Starting pay was 37,500 to start over a dozen years ago and you were pretty much guaranteed to make it to GS-11.

[SgtHopperUSMC]

Snipes is a bad a*s and has been studying martial arts for years i doubt if anyone tries him and plus federal prison is a joke. He'll be eating steaks and reading movie scripts.





:marine: :flag: SEMPER FI 4 LIFE
YOURS IS NOT TO QUESTION WHY BUT TO DO OR DIE!!!Have you ever been in one? Worked in one? Club Fed is closed! No steaks here. Just a national menu. :mad:

[darkgreen0311]

No, can't say that i have but i was a Police Officer for nine years.




:marine: :flag: SEMPER FI 4 LIFE
YOURS IS NOT TO QUESTION WHY BUT TO DO OR DIE!!!

[sgt.r.n.davis]

justice has been served!!! that will be three 3 long years to think about his trying to cheat!!!, while the good folks foot the bill.
maybe he will forget to pay his attorney's they didn't do anything for him!!!
ouch!!!

[yellowwing]

Three years for bailing out on $15 million does seem rather lenient.

[sgt.r.n.davis]

MY FATHER USE TO ALWAYS SAY. I HAVE A FAMILY AND A GOVERENMENT TO SUPPORT!!!:cry:
HE WAS AND OLD WORLD WAR II VET...FOUGHT IN THE ISLANDS...:cool:

[AAV Crewchief]

Snipes is a bad a*s and has been studying martial arts for years i doubt if anyone tries him and plus federal prison is a joke. He'll be eating steaks and reading movie scripts.





:marine: :flag: SEMPER FI 4 LIFE
YOURS IS NOT TO QUESTION WHY BUT TO DO OR DIE!!!

There's always at least one person who can whip your ass. Snipes is no different.

[sscjoe]

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[David Jameson]

I can't help but think ,they love to dog anyone high profle people.