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Judge sentences Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions
msnbc ^ | 4/24/08

Posted on 04/24/2008 8:51:05 PM PDT by XR7

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To: edcoil
I'm sorry I was abrupt with you, I thought I was on the afternoon thread (a barrel of laughs, that one). Generally speaking, if you are a celebrity, the IRS nails your hide to the wall in order to make an example of you.

And it works, witness the discussions going on here.

With regard to Mr. Snipe's incarceration (pending appeal, blah blah blah), I suppose there is a possibility that he gets sent to a Club Fed-type facility, but I doubt it. He's looking at more than two-and-a-half years of eating bologna sandwiches.

41 posted on 04/25/2008 6:10:34 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: bill1952

Your average citizen doen’t know much about state corrections and even less about the federal system. It wasn’t too long ago there was a big Federal Probation and Parole operation. Hard to keep up sometimes.


42 posted on 04/25/2008 9:20:55 AM PDT by purpleraine
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To: purpleraine
Your average citizen doen’t know much about state corrections and even less about the federal system.

Exactly. - My point being that even fewer people that do not know much act, talk, believe and write as if they know exactly what they are talking about, and I was making the point that research, rational thought and understanding have been replaced by Dogma.

43 posted on 04/25/2008 9:37:36 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: XR7
You may not have to pay taxes but you do have a legal obligation to report your income. Failure to fulfill that obligation will land you in prison.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

44 posted on 04/25/2008 10:01:04 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: edcoil
I’ll assume you are correct, but, Celeb’s rarely do any time . This story still has not ended.

He's waiting on a pardon from his brother Obama! LOL!

45 posted on 04/25/2008 10:06:46 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Forget it...I'll never be able to pull the lever for McCain!)
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To: XR7

Are you guys aware the the Federal Office of Patents and Trademarks now offers PATENTS on Tax Avoidance schemes? If you use one that you thought of by yourself, but that is already patented...you owe the other party a ROYALTY! LOL..wonderful country, huh?


46 posted on 04/25/2008 11:03:42 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: bill1952

Yes, I see that on a lot of threads.


47 posted on 04/25/2008 11:18:02 AM PDT by purpleraine
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To: XR7

FREE WESLEY SNIPES!...............


48 posted on 04/25/2008 12:34:11 PM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: XR7
What happened to those guys who convinced Snipes of that and probably did his tax returns for him - and not for free, I am sure?

They were tried with him and got convicted of felonies (Snipes was convicted only of misdemeanors). One got 10 years, one got almost 5.

49 posted on 04/25/2008 12:46:10 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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