Wesley Snipes in prison
Actor Wesley Snipes is going to jail for three years! The ‘Blade’ actor will serve time for tax related crimes.
Wesley Snipes was convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanors including willful failure to file his income tax returns.
Snipes was ordered to surrender immediately to begin his three year prison sentence.
“Wesley is very disappointed but staying strong and positive,” – Snipes’ lawyer said in a statement. Wesley Snipes may be able to kill vampires, but he can’t avoid the IRS, therefore he’ll spend the next three years of he life in jail.
- Wesley Snipes.
Action star Wesley Snipes, most famous for portraying Blade, the ‘Daywalker’ in the Blade trilogy of movies, lost an appeal for a new trial on Friday and was ordered to surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to begin serving a 36-month prison sentence for his 2008 conviction on three misdemeanor counts of willfully failing to file federal tax returns. In his 17-page order, U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges said: “The Defendant Snipes had a fair trial…. The time has come for the judgment to be enforced.”
Snipes’ attorney, Daniel Meachum, called the judge’s verdict ‘shocking’ and said: “Wesley is very disappointed but staying strong and positive.” Meachum said his defense team was ‘determined to exhaust all plausible avenues’ in appealing the decision, up to and including taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Wesley Snipes (mugshot above) is now serving a three year prison sentence for tax evasion. Wesley Snipes’ prison location has yet to be revealed to news.
On Friday U.S. District Judge Terrell Hodges ruled that Snipes report to prison immediately: “The defendant Snipes had a fair trial. The time has come for the judgment to be enforced”.
In 2008, a court was asked to determine if Snipes failed to pay taxes from 1999 to 2001. During that time, Snipes earned 37,9$ million. The court found that Snipes failed to pay 12$ million in taxes. Snipes had appealed the 36 month verdict. The appeals court disagreed. Wesley Snipes’ attorneys had blamed financial adviser, Kenneth Starr. In the weeks that followed, Diane Passage told the New York Post that Snipes had allegedly assigned persons to follow her.
Snipes’ attorney said Friday: “Wesley is very disappointed but staying strong and positive.”