Wesley Snipes Plays Race Card - (Didn't pay taxes for 6 years)

The Smoking Gun ^ | 6/8/07 | The Smoking Gun

[GeorgiaDawg32]

JUNE 8--Facing trial in a bizarre tax avoidance scheme, actor Wesley Snipes claims that prosecutors used race as a factor in deciding to charge him with failure to file six years worth of IRS returns. In a motion to dismiss an eight-count indictment filed last October, Snipes argues that he is the victim of selective prosecution.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I did a title search and didn't see this posted. If it's a duplicate, I apologize..

[Red Badger]

The IRS may be guilty of a lot of things, but racial bias or profiling is not one of them. The only color they see is green........

[goldstategop]

Ha! You may not have to pay taxes but you DO have to file a tax return. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. And they'll prosecute you if you don't just as a warming.

"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

[srotaG adirolF]

Oh please! Wesley, you committed the crime, do the time.
What a person would do not to go to jail.

[Jaxter]

Totally unfair!!! There are literally millions of white guys that didn't pay Wesley Snipes' taxes. Yet he is the only one charged!!!

[PeterPrinciple]

You may not have to pay taxes but you DO have to file a tax return.
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Not if you don’t have enough taxable income.

[4yearlurker]

Yeah Wesley,throw that race card on the wall and see if it sticks. Pay up!!

[EndWelfareToday]

Snipes argues that he is the victim of selective prosecution.

Uh huh!

[DogByte6RER]

Snipes just needs to renounce his U.S. citizenship and then sneak back across the border as an illegal alien.

Then he can just say “adios” to income taxes!

[snarks_when_bored]

It’s always been obvious that vampirism doesn’t pay.

[Badeye]

Gee, maybe he could join the Browns in their standoff.....

[advertising guy]

Snipes needs to stfu and get a good lawyer and pay some bills. Hell Willie and Hollywood would rally around him if he was smart..........if......

[Squantos]

Agree........ I don’t remember a place on my tax return that asks for race ?

In this case Ole Wess just lost the race with the IRS !

[KenmcG414]

He’ll beat it!!!

[dfwgator]

All he had to do is take Steve Martin’s advice, and simply say, “I forgot.”

[albie]

And now, a message for Wesley Snipes “Yo G! Tsup? Sell some of yo bling to pay ‘da man”. (not bad for a pasty faced white guy)

[Wiseghy]

A lots of semi-educated actors like him get pulled in by slick investment scheme gurus who worm their way into the celebrity world. They shun banks and legit advisors for these dim-wits promising no taxes and double digit returns.

Seems I saw a pick of the investment shyster that he was working with; a real Don King type.

[pabianice]

[Names Ash Housewares]

Blade, the IRS are bloodsuckers you will never win against.