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To: Man50D

Has Wesley Snipes been sentenced yet?


6 posted on 02/01/2008 12:11:40 PM PST by Republicus2001
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Has Wesley Snipes been sentenced yet? p Jury Acquits Wesley Snipes of Tax Fraud

Friday, February 1, 2008

OCALA, Fla. - Action star Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return.

Snipes and two co-defendants, a delicensed accountant and a tax protest leader, were indicted in 2006. Snipes was also indicted on six counts of willful failure to file a tax return from 1999-2004, a period in which he signed two contracts for more than $10 million on sequels in the "Blade" trilogy. He was acquitted on three of those and convicted on the others. He could be sentenced to three years in prison after originally facing a possible 16 years.

Co-defendants Eddie Ray Kahn, the founder of a tax protest group, and Douglas P. Rosile, the accountant, were convicted by the same jury of tax fraud and conspiracy. Snipes sat expressionless until all of his verdicts were read. Then, defense attorney Robert Bernhoft put his hand on the actor's leg and Snipes nodded in relief.

http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=TopStories&referrer=welcome&id=20080201/47a2a750_3ca6_15526200802011894705064

49 posted on 02/01/2008 3:08:43 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
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