Free Blade!!!! Gets Maximum 3 Year Prison Term

Posted on April 24th, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: News, One-Time, Wesley Snipes

Posted by Bossip Staff

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Wesley Snipes was locked up today for a tax evasion conviction:

A judge has just sentenced Wesley Snipes to three years in prison for tax evasion. Forget black — always bet on the U.S. government!

Snipes was not forced to surrender immediately. Instead, the judge ruled he could surrender at a later date, closer to his New Jersey home. Nathan J. Hochman, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, said, “Snipes’ long prison sentence should send a loud and crystal clear message to all tax defiers that if they engage in similar tax defier conduct, they face joining him and his co-defendants … as inmates in prison.”

Denzel wrote a letter to the judge on Wesley’s behalf but he still got the maximum possible sentence. You know the judge got mad at a brotha making 30X more than him. Click here to read why Snipes thinks racism is involved in the case.

His sentence sounds excessive to us, discuss…

  • D.P

    Damn Wesley

  • Billy Blog Thorton

    damn Wes…

  • karen

    GOOD!!! damn ni ggers always trying to steal from the government. if its not through taxes its thru welfare. just goes to prove black people are gross. thats why i dont date your kind. and i KNEW just KNEW you coons were going to play the race card on this…its pathetic.

    they should give him life for being so dark!

  • karen

    oh…THIRD now where are my three acres and a mule?!?!

  • knocked up

    Like I said before, this is some f-ed up s hit!

    R-kelly pisses on minors and gets no jail time, but don’t file your taxes and you get locked down?!?! See, that’s white America for ya.

  • alb

    Oh so Wesley wants to cite racism right, isn’t this the same guy who doesn’t date black women because they don’t know how to act? Yeah I really dont care what they do with him.

  • Serafina

    I hope they have an Asian man behind bars with him, that way he can feel more than comfortable.

    Usually the IRS don’t play when it comes to tax evasion, but I’ve seen cases far worse than his where they let the person get a more lenient sentence in favor of paying the money back.

    However, all judges are different in how they senstence someone.

    Maybe he was harsh because he’s black and/or famous. Maybe Snipes rubbed him the wrong way with his arrogance. Or maybe he’s just tired of people trying to get over on the system.

    Whatever it is, he’ll be a hit at the jail. Doing all of those “Blade” martial arts moves while naked in the shower.

  • trs

    I live 30 minutes outside of Ocala (where the sentence was handed down) and all I can say is that I SAW IT COMING. Ocala is one racist, redneck town. They are making an example of out of him because a three year sentence for this sort of “crime” is ridiculous.

    @knocked up

    COSIGN!!!

  • fat boy

    DAMN WHITE PEOPLE…free my nugguh!!!

  • trs

    @ Serafina

    Whatever it is, he’ll be a hit at the jail. Doing all of those “Blade” martial arts moves while naked in the shower.

    GURL you know you wrong for that! LOL :) You have a lovely pic (no homo). Just paying you a compliment.

  • Mimi

    He has some nerve to be citing racism!!!

    At the end of the day, he’s a tax cheat and he deserves to go to jail. The only reason he didn’t go to jail sooner is because he is a rich celebrity, just like OJ. This has nothing to do with racism.

    Ho sit down!!!

  • Serafina

    Oh and Karen? Bend your head between your legs and lick your nasty arse. You need something strong tasting to make you wake up from your fantasy world. The one where you actually think that anyone gives a rat’s patoot about what you think.

    Now go sit in the corner and wipe your mouth.

  • http://myspace.com/afiya00 Afiya

    Damn, they really locked him up huh…SMH!

  • Mimi

    Wesley, don’t drop the soap in the shower….

  • Tootsie

    wow he got three years in a federal case (not paying taxes) while T.I. gets one year with community sentence in a federal case (guns, etc) what a great judicial system we have…

  • shelli

    What is even more ridiculous is that Denzel wrote a letter on his behalf. I thought Denzel was better than this. What happened to all of our upstanding black men in Hollyweird?

  • Lush_Us Lipps

    @ Knocked Up – I totally agree!

  • cns

    His arrogance is why he got the max.

  • Amazed

    He needs to go to jail and pay what he owes. All that money and he thought he didn’t owe taxes, that is just being dumb!

  • craig mack

    @Mimi

    unfortunately, he is probably not going to real jail. He’s going to white collar crime “Club Med” jail.

  • Amazed

    I just read on CNN that the $5M is the fine.

    “The IRS is also seeking repayment of all taxes and interest through civil court proceedings.”

  • Amazed

    I meant to say JUST the fine. This is in settlement of the criminal case the civil case has not been resolved yet.

  • http://musicplustv.com Noxema Jackson

    look at that pic he really thinks hes asian. I will never forget the dumb comments he made about black women in ebony.

  • http://www.myspace.com/birdshu Bird

    Shoot Wesley got away with murder. They need to call him the new OJ. The exception is that although he got acquitted of the most severe charges he got conficted on a little something something that they could slam him with. He better be grateful for that little 3 years. Who the hell does he think he is T.I.?

  • cari

    Halle Berry must be smiling right about now! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • MRS. P

    WHO CARES!!!!! A FEW YEARS BACK THERE WAS A INTERVIEW WITH WESLEY SNIPES IN EBONY STATING HOW HE LOVE ASIAN WOMEN AND HOW THEY ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN BLACK WOMEN. WELL WESLEY YOUR ASIAN WOMAN LEFT YOU AND TOOK THE RESTAURANT YOU BOUGHT FOR HER, TOOK YOUR MONEY, AND NOW YOU GOING TO JAIL, KARMA IS A MOTHA. I BET HE RUN TO ALL THE BLACK PRESS, MAGAZINES, AND ANY BLACK PERSON THAT WILL LISTEN NOW THAT HE IS WASHED UP, THAT IS USUALLY WHAT BLACK CELEBRITIES DO WHEN THEY GET INTO TROUBLE, START CALLING ALL THE BLACK MAGAZINES FOR SUPPORT. HEY BLACK PRESS…. IF WESLEY CALL TELL HIM TO GO TO JACKIE CHAN, JET LI, AND YOKO ONO, SINCE THEY ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR OWN RACE.

  • charter cub

    wesley’s preference in women has nothing to do with an injustice against a citizen.

    no tax laws exist, my fellow americans. NONE. this sentence is 100% illegal, and the government knows that.

  • craig mack

    @Mrs P.

    LOL!

    Black people, we need to rise up and take a stand against these black celebrities behaving badly and embarassing the race, by not supporting their movies, tv shows etc. Who’s with me?

  • Dimple Pink

    Wow another blk person w/ money and celebrity sentenced to jail. This will be the yr of blk stars doing time. I think R kelly and Lil Wayne are next. Snipes was dumb as hell for this.

  • charter cub

    you slaves need to wake up.

    i dear one of you slaves to post here the law that says americans must pay an income tax. and i would also appreciate it if you slaves would post the law that he violated.

  • Necy

    @ serafina

    CO- SIGN on that !!!!!

  • Necy

    @ cari

    CO-SIGN

  • Shayna

    @craig macck

    my list so far:

    OJ

    Wesley Snipes

    Foxy Brown

    TI

    R. Kelley

  • Dimple Pink

    @ charter club

    If this is such an injustice why hasn’t anyone argued that fact publicly? How is a federal judge allowed to illegally sentence someone w/ other there being some stir up? Pls explain your point. Im lost.

  • Lisalisa

    Natasha,

    The post you quoted clearly said he was “not forced to surrender immediately. Instead, the judge ruled he could surrender at a later date, closer to his New Jersey home.” So he was NOT locked up today, but he was sentenced today. There are a zillion pics of him walking out of the courthouse.

  • charter cub

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    http://www.truthusa.org

    please look up sherry peel jackson. she is a BLACK woman and EX IRS employee who’s been educating americans about the illegality of taxes.

    http://www.sherrypeeljackson.com

  • Shayna

    How could I forget Naomi Campbell

  • Jani

    You do the crime you gotta do the time, ain’t nothing to do with colour, he had fun not paying tax now his having a hard time paying his dues, it’s very simple pay you tax stay out of jail.

  • Boomboomroom

    LOL ya’ll killing me!

  • charter cub

    http://www.sherrypeeljackson.com

    former irs agent.

    wake up, slaves.

    wesley did nothing wrong.

  • patience

    if foxy brown and naomi were put in the same jail cell, they both so crazy they would just kill each other and that would be the end of our problems with these two.

  • Necy

    @ maceo

    don’t pay attention to the IGNORANT !!! for, they know NOT their ass from their face….

  • k

    I do not think any judge is jealous of Wesley Snipes. Hollywood actors have no real power and the judge makes enough money. Not to mention, Wesley is ugly as hell!!! Wesley deserves to serve all three years. It is not fair that us real people have to pay our taxes and he gets away with it.

  • shwn

    Ha thats what that stupid white loving N gets

  • De

    Gee, Wesley, I feel sorry for you, but your life started going down the toilet when you dogged black women. Karma is a b*$#&, isn’t it. Don’t drop the soap.

  • Burn some WhiteTrash

    Ha thats what that stupid white loving N gets.Toss all them Whitey loving N,s in there with him.

  • Burn some WhiteTrash

    Don’t worry Wesley that other White loving N. O.J is about to join you.

  • karen

    oh my bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you guys are right, i see the light. the man is doing this to keep you down right??

    shut the FuK up!!! first of all wesley doesnt give two sh!ts about any of you broke ass negroes. and two he really does deserve it. how do you not file taxes when your yearly revenue is in the millions — that dumb nig was asking for it…

    oh right, sorry…its was the white man! the white man made him NOT file taxes.

  • karen

    you coons really need to shut your holes with the race card…its ALWAYS the race card, come up with a new excuse.

  • I cant say…

    @ Serafina~ One woman to another, you are far too beautiful to use such language although you told a dumb f*cker like they needed to be told…(no homo)

    I wonder why Denzel wrote a letter on his behalf, why not Jackie Chan or Jet Li even Yoko Ono?? This is what they call poetic justice, he cant stand black women, so great where he’s going there’ll be none, he can instead get cozy with the Black fellas!! I say all the swirl boys that abominate and disrepute Black women will get their due… OJ got his and so will all the other self- hating Black men that lash out against Black women… And oh, I think the sentence is ridiculously excessive, but its Wesley- so who gives a f*ck??!!

  • Burn some WhiteTrash

    Hopefully all these Whitey loving N, celebrities will get smart and stick with there own kind.

  • nikki

    I owe Uncle Sam as we speak, so if I have to pay my taxes…so does Wesley.

  • I cant say…

    @ Reloaded~ Great!! You can sign up making your TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to: “F*ck a coon who shucking and jiving with a white b*tch”. We are not for profit and recieve a majority of our funding from the scores of US citizens THAT do pay taxes- that is with the exception of Wesley and our very own Charter Club, destined to join him…

  • Boomboomroom

    Paying taxes isn’t just about the law. It’s about funding the government and all the government programs people benefit from. Just pay them. Paying them benefits us all in the end if the government uses the money wisely. Half the time they don’t, but we can have hope.

  • Lili

    The sentence does sound long, but then again- HOW LONG SHOULD ONE BE IMPRISONED FOR STIFFING THE GOVT millions of dollars? It’s a shame that he has to leave his fam and get locked up, but I don’t know how he thought he could get away with that mess.

    ———————–

    charter cub

    @ The person with the long, ignorant name.

    There’s no constitutional basis for taxes.

    The 16th amendment was NEVER ratified. NEVER. Congress knows it’s illegal. The whole government knows it’s illegal. The IRS knows it’s illegal. In fact, many Americans have challenged the IRS and WON. Prior to 1913, Americans did NOT pay taxes. Do you hear that?

    ^^^Charter Club, you are TOTALLY right. However the problem is it doesn’t seem like Wesley has disputed paying his income taxes- he simply didn’t file.

    Now, with the $ he has, he probably could hire a great lawyer and successfully dispute paying income taxes, just like many who don’t even make a 20th of what he does have done.

    But NO. He filed for 12mill in tax refunds in 96 and 97 and then stopped filing all together in the later years. THAT was not a smart move.

  • PS is Hot

    I’m sorry I got a lil side track with KKK Karen rampage,I don’t even call that freedom of speech,call it like I see ignorance,rent to own give anybody a computer, bottom line he didn’t pay, so wether it was me or the next person they also would or will come after us too,if they can hound you for 1,000.00 now we see what they can and will do for millions!

  • Okay

    Okay my sistas…I know what Wesley said about sistas and it was wrong…However, God can deal with him better than we can…So while I’m pissed about what he said and stopped supporting him, it does me no good to harbor those ill bitter feelings…

    IMO it makes us no better saying that’s good for him because of what he said about Black women…If we say, that’s what happens when you don’t pay taxes, that’s different…

    I hope he does some serious soul-searching while he’s locked up…

  • http://www.mokellyreport.blogspot.com Mo’Kelly

    The sentence was just. The government has been indiscriminate with celebrity imprisonments, irrespective of color. Do some research on names like Leona Hemsley, Joe Francis (Girls Gone Wild) Willie Nelson, etc.

    If you don’t pay Uncle Sam his money, he will get you and that’s all there is to it.

  • WordtotheWise

    Karen, don’t forget to take your medicine, dear.

  • I cant say…

    They cant give you a payment plan and work with you if you are someone out to defraud the system… With that logic, someone who robs a bank should be given a payment plan and allowed to comply as an option BEFORE imprisonment. Whether a blue-collar or white collar crime, it is the ACT that is punishable. Stealing is illegal- and on a Federal level he should not have been so reckless b/c they will crack the whip!! His sentence is b/c he was found guilty of intentionally trying to defraud the gov’t to collect funds he didnt deserve and the act to conceal income, just as though someone working for the Federal Reserve bilking funds- FRAUD!!

  • MRS. P

    I WILL SUPPORT ALL OF THE ABOVE CELEBRITIES……. ONLY IF SOMEBODY TAKE LIL WAYNE AND KHIA(IS THAT HOW YOU SPELL IT)AND DO A DROP SQUAD ON THEM PLEASE. IF BARACK OBAMA DON’T WIN THE ELECTION I KNOW IT WILL BE LIL WAYNE AND KHIA FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • YungBlood

    Even clebs need to obey the law. He’s a bum.

  • Righteous Indignation

    @ Charter Club

    In america, you pay your taxes or face the consequences of your non-actions. We live in a capitalistic society that affords its’ citizens a plethora of freedoms and luxuries that other countries would sell their souls for. Respect that or purchase a one-way ticket to some third world hellhole with no working economy or running water.

  • camel’s wife

    Why couldn’t he just pay a fine and do just a few months under house arrest? Hopefully his lawyers will appeal

  • LEESA

    Mimi

    He has some nerve to be citing racism!!!

    At the end of the day, he’s a tax cheat and he deserves to go to jail. The only reason he didn’t go to jail sooner is because he is a rich celebrity, just like OJ. This has nothing to do with racism.

    Ho sit down!!!

    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    I totally co-sign!! I hope he has to serve the entire 3 years, and then gets shot in the back by a prison guard while trying to escape!

    American justice at its best!

  • Lyn

    He got the max because he was not convicted on the more serious charge. He was not convicted of tax evasion but for failing to file tax returns. He knew he was wrong and he deserves to serve his time. No special treatment for being rich. Pay your dues like everyone else.

  • daniel

    to karen: remember u disgusting cave cunt. willy nelson was also tried for steal from the government. and they toss his cracker ass in the can. and for welfare, it’s u wet dog smelling monster freak who are stealing from the government with your corporate welfare. and no descent bm would date a vanilla mattress monster like u.

  • http://www.selectappraisalonline.com Kimmie in Cleveland

    Wesley Snipes was probably not given an option of paying back the money owed, because the government knows that he has a low probability of repayment.

    His most productive years are far behind him, and his career has been in decline for some time now. His earning potential is not promising, especially after such a public trial.

    So, the government wants to be paid in time, not money. That is their choice. The lesson learned should be to try and stay out of the justice system period. It is usually never a pleasant experience.

  • Karen’s pimp

    Karen, didn’t I tell you to get in the house….Guess I’m going to have to choke a bitc#

  • tj

    He’s lucky he didn’t get longer. All entertainers of his caliber have accountants. He had to tell the accountant not to pay taxes. It’s not like he couldn’t pay, or forgot to pay he purposefully did not pay taxes yet he had no problem driving down the streets, enjoying public services, and benefitting from the national security paid for by everyone else some of whom barely make enough to feed their families.

    Please. LOCK HIM UP!

  • aqueenwaits

    That’s a damn shame! Why is it that white america is always trying to make examples where only black people are concerned? And for Wesley Snipes —– you dumb darkie……maybe if you would have put down the damn chopsticks in the bedroom, your ashy butt wouldn’t be in this mess. Forget bettin’ on black!!!!! (a quote from Passenger 57) more like Cellblock 3

  • Corree

    Hell, if my broke ass has to pay taxes, then so should he. I don’t feel sorry for him in the least.

  • MrsLaadee

    YOU DO THE CRIME…YOU DO THE TIME!!!

  • Whatchaknoaboutdat?

    Wesley is an arrogant asshole…but he’ll be okay. He or his attorneys should’ve made some type arrangements to pay Uncle Sam his dough, doe.

    ~Good luck with that Wes…

  • Burn some WhiteTrash

    See if Wesley snipes had of stuck with his own kind this would never have happened dumb LoL.

  • Burn some WhiteTrash

    See if Wesley snipes had of stuck with his own kind this would never have happened dumb.

  • intenzemocha

    YEAHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    KARMA AT ITS FINEST!

    ENOUGH SAID-

    HE LUCKY HE DIDN’T GET LONGER THAN THAT-HE WAS DOING A JIG WHEN THE OTHER CHARGES WERE DROPPED AND THEY STUCK IT TO HIS ASS

    RUNNING TO AFRICA THE IRONY I SWEAR

    GOOD FOR HIS BLACK A$$

  • jason

    @Righteous Indignation

    @ Charter Club

    In america, you pay your taxes or face the consequences of your non-actions. We live in a capitalistic society that affords its’ citizens a plethora of freedoms and luxuries that other countries would sell their souls for. Respect that or purchase a one-way ticket to some third world hellhole with no working economy or running water.

    u sound ignorant dude!!!!! stop saying sh&t about third world countries, you don’t know squash about any third wolrd country. every country pays taxes, but have different governmental strategy, so get ur fact right dummy. at wesley snipes, his dumb behind could have filed along time ago period!!!!!!

  • Til You Do Right By Me…

    @

    Alb, Mrs. P, Puty Tang and De

    AMEN!!!!

  • Baretta

    Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, Weaslely

  • persona

    Not excessive. I mean, they dropped all the other charges that could have landed him in jail for 30 years. Three years doesn’t sound bad next to 30.

  • Shootingstar

    F*ck him! Why should somebody making $7.50 an hour behind the counter at Duane Reade be forced to shoulder Wesley Snipes’ tax burden?

    He drives on public highways and his kids play in public parks, so he needs to pay the piper just like everyone else.

  • FNH

    Lock his ass up!

    I cant believe anyone wasted their time writing anything for him. They were smart enough to PAY their taxes and file… now u want them to speak on your behalf? U aint special!!! U thought folks didnt know u made any money? DUH! I could careless whether he goes to jail. One minute u barely being black (AS BLACK AS YOU ARE) cause u dont even wanna holla at any black women, now its racism? That white skin you love so much, is putting your behind in jail. Whatever. If they locked up Martha, they’ll lock your black ass up too.

    DEUCES… (dont drop the soap!)

  • http://www.myspace.com/SAxlerod SAxlerod

    Very excessive sentence and you know race a part of it.

  • karma

    you know it’s a good thang wesley did that short stint on that infommercial for bow flex working on his abs and lats he gon need that excra muscle to fight off then n***as in jail!

    Dumb N***a!

  • Earth Sign

    why cant we debate without the hate. United we stand divided we fall. As a race we are doomed

  • Earth Sign

    Is income tax illegal??

    One of the reasons the way the IRS is enforcing income tax is because it contradicts the 5th amendment and it clearly states in the IRS code that income tax on a employees labor is optional. Something else I know about the 16th amendment is that it was suppose to be temporary and that it was targeted towards the income for a business on there goods and services not the individual employees labor. I think it’s the 5th amendment that states that an individual can not incriminate himself (self-incrimination) and the 16th amendment clearly contradicts this since tax payers have to file their own taxes and that is why many people in congress did not want to ratify the 16th amendment and it was never fully ratified. This has been a big issue for a very long time and for many many years cases have been won over and over again in the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court goes by the book most court below the Supreme Court do not. Not paying your income tax is very risky but if you get charged and can take your case to the Supreme Court your safe….

  • Butterscotch

    @Shayna

    Don’t forget to add Remy Ma to your list of legally-challenged folks

  • Earth Sign

    Actually most of income tax does not go to our governemnt but to pay back the interest on the money that the gov’t borrows from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is not a part of our gov’t, it is a private bank.

    THe income tax is only legal if you sign your w-4 when you start a job. There is no law saying you need to sign it, and other than signing your w-4 which says you will voluntarily give them money, there is no law requiring you sign it or pay it,as long as you do not sign a w-4.

    And BTW the 16th amendment was never lagally ratified on top of the fact that the 16th amendment goes against everything else in the constitution regarding aportioned taxes and nonaportioned taxes.

  • Boomboomroom

    So let’s say we all stop paying our taxes, what happens then? How will the government get most of its dough to fund all the stuff it does. Off the weed they grow? I’m wondering.

  • Boomboomroom

    The country can’t go into default. It has to deal with the Fed or abolish it and that should have happened long ago.

  • memchee

    that’s a lotta bank to be makin’ for him not to have hired solid professionals.

  • Earth Sign

    we pay other taxes as well. Everything we buy is taxed, property taxes, car taxes, etc. We pay more than enough taxes. Just think about our economy, over 3 trillion dollars exchanges hands on a regular basis in America, and everything we buy is taxed. That more than enough money to support everything, wars, welfare you name it

  • Earth Sign

    His tax advisors and accountants never filed taxes either. Hundreds of millions of us allow this, thats why they can make an example out of Wesley Snipes, and other peope who do dont file a return. Just imagine if a hundred million people in America took a stand and forced this issue to the Supreme Court to force them to make a law. Im not against paying taxes, but wrong is wrong

  • Anthony8

    He’s an idiot. His big was mistake was not owning up to his crime right away and paying the penalty.

    You have to be humble for the Feds, even though you may not want to. Wesley was purposefully defiant, not humble, and played victim. The media may hype up a race angle, but the Feds don’t give a sh*t.

    And the letter from Denzel – hah!. The Feds are the least celebrity impressed entity on the planet. Denzel Washington is powerful in Hollywood. That’s it. Why would he think that federal prosecutors give a rat’s ass about what he thinks Wesley’s sentence should be.

  • Roni

    A Black woman would have told him to PAY HIS DAMN TAXES!!

    LOCK HIS A** UP!!!!

  • statim08

    He should’ve taken a plea. It would’ve been less than 3 years.

  • And another one..

    DAYYYYUM!!! Nino Brown woulda got lessl!! If that was Brad or Tom white boy actors would they have got that? Racism is the reason for that sentence no doubt. FREE BLADE! IRS can go suck on Weezy Lollipop

  • Wondering

    The sentence is excessive. Why would they give him the maximum sentence? Maybe it has more to do with him being a celeb and less to do with him being black.

  • annah

    i think its not fair, really not fair. wesly we cry with you my brother. anyway no one said life is fair. i guess we have to live anyway.

  • Johar from Algeria

    That’s a harsh sentence.

    @Karen,

    Please, throw yourself through a window for a better world,

  • Ms Nobody

    Wesley once tried entering South Africa using a fake passport. He then said he had meant that as a joke! He has not been allowed into S. A since then. He clearly has NO RESPECT for the law. And I think he really deserves this sentence.

  • Whitey

    N iggers never think they do anything wrong do they? Being he was sentenced to prison, I’m sure there were no n iggers on the jury.

  • Touch

    This is extremly excessive compared to people who has owed way more to the gov. With that said, why is always mega rich folks that do everything they can to not pay there taxes??? Whether we agree with his sentence the majority of us know he tried to run some game in the IRS and he had the balls to not file at all for what 5 years. Now this guy at one point was getting damn-near 20 mil per movie and that’s why I really don’t feel sorry for him getting bagged, but I don’t think he should be jailed for this amount of time by no means. Really I don’t think he should get any jail time. They should just fine the hell out of him, give him mad community service, and make him pay the money he owed in the 1st place.

  • Nu

    I get what a lot of you are saying about the law, but at the end of the day people not earning the kind of money Snipes earns pay their taxes; why can’t he?

    Although as you say it is not illegal when you decide to go against IRS you know there is going to be a fight you might possibly lose – he lost. I don’t think it is fair but he knew the consequences of his actions – he is not a victim here.

    As for his dating preferences, well I don’t know many sister that would want to date his wonky-eyed self anyway so he needs to keep on tagging those asian chicks.

  • B

    i think all the people should stop paying taxes and lets see what the US government will do then

    at the end of the day they don’t do anything constructive with the money there are rubbish educational facilities and no free health care,and poor housing so what exactly do they need the money for and why should anyone have to pay

    how comes they are making him a scape goat not paying taxes is not a crime the US judgement of morality is disorted how comes Paris Hilton got like three days for drugs and driving under the influence that is more of a real risk to the public than not paying taxes

    The US is too capatalist and people see a problem when other countries resist westernisation and people want to defend this stupid country now you know the reason why countries fight so hard not to be in this nasty game where money dictates whether you live of die

  • I’m Just Me

    TOLD Y’ALL THE IRS AIN’T PLAYING!

  • SMDH

    “@ The Angry Black B*tches

    So, are y’all happy he’s going to jail for tax evasion or for coming to the realization that spending the rest of his life with some trifin’ loud mouth, unpleasant (90% of the time) black b*tch was not an option? Enquiring minds wanna know

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^”

    Typical angry n!gger male statement!! Leave it to the n!gger to retaliate against the innocent when his dumb azz fcuks up..

    Always the black womans fault, huh??

    LOL – wtf does the black woman have to do with this stupid ignorant fcuking n!gger thinking he could cheat the IRS and claim discrimination when they came after him for it?? NOT A DAMN THING – so stand down.. Don’t hate on us cause your fellow coon is going to the booty house for three years..

    Besides – I thought the n!gger male loved jail.. As often as you bastards go to jail it seems like the place to be!!!

  • bree

    what goes around comes back around!

  • Tiff

    Sure he was wrong for what he did, but 3 years?! People murder and get less time than that! What a system!

  • SMDH

    “@ The Angry Black B*tches

    So, are y’all happy he’s going to jail for tax evasion or for coming to the realization that spending the rest of his life with some trifin’ loud mouth, unpleasant (90% of the time) black b*tch was not an option? Enquiring minds wanna know

    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^”

    Typical angry criminal monkey male statement!! Leave it to the n*gger boy to retaliate against the innocent when his dumb azz f*cks up.. Its everyone elses fault that he can’t live by the law everyone lives by, right??

    Always the black womans fault, huh??

    LOL – wtf does the black woman have to do with this stupid ignorant f*cking swamp ninja thinking he could cheat the IRS and claim discrimination when they came after him for it?? NOT A DAMN THING – so stand down.. Don’t hate on us cause your fellow coon is going to the booty house for three years..

    Besides – I thought the ape male loved jail.. As often as you bastards go to jail it seems like the place to be!!!

    It doesn’t matter why we’re happy!! All that matters is that self hating f*cking n*gger is going to jail!!

  • SMDH

    “Sure he was wrong for what he did, but 3 years?! People murder and get less time than that! What a system!”

    He deserved LIFE – just for being the ignorant arrogant bastard that he is..

  • Black Beauty

    PAY YOUR TAXES WESLEY, I HAVE TO AND YOU MAKE A LOT MORE THAN ME.

  • And…

    1. He was wrong for tax evasion.

    2. You can’t kill anyone for not paying taxes.

    3. I’d like to see all of those celebutantes & such go to jail/stay there for drunk driving and being under the influence of drugs…matter of fact getting caught with that rock. I mean they get caught w/cocaine, ex…and just be walking out the next day crying with Juicy Couture & Chanel on.

    VEHICULAR HOMOCIDE is not a game. MVA’s are the #1 killer of people ages 18-34 in many states.

    Most of the time the killer had a previous offense or wasn’t supposed to be driving.

    Nobody is above the law…even a vampire. They all need to go to jail. All of them. We as normal citizens can’t even jaywalk without getting 20 to life.

  • DCBRAT

    That’s what he gets!! Good for him and I hope they take that butt while he is in there. LMAO!!

  • pashpash

    A good! How`s he REALLY gonnna cry racism on this one when he`s the one discriminating against black females by refusing to date them? Not to worry Wes, I`m sure you can find plenty of white people in jail to be your lover.

  • Kevin W

    That’s a shame Wes. The fact is when it comes to non-payment of taxes, the government just doesn’t play. Everyone hates paying taxes, but if they allow people to start getting away without paying, they know sooner or later the people will start a tax revolt. If you have half the country not paying their taxes, they would have to somehow change the laws because they couldn’t lock everyone up. The government never wants things to get to that point so they hand down stiff fines and prison time to make examples out of people. Wes should have taken a look at how the government wore down Joe Louis for all those years over unpaid taxes. And he was supposed to be a US hero at the time! They probably also wanted to get Wes for writing that letter to the government talking about if they’ve seen his movies they already know not to mess with him. SMH

  • Blah

    3 years is just…he cheated millions from the govt that everyday ppl like you and I have to make up for. Tax fraud is wrong on so many levels. Everyone else has to pay their taxes – I would love to have that 30% of my salary they take out but I realize the roads I drive on, the schools I went to, the govt programs that help the needy all rely on that money I make. And I am willing to do that. And btw, anyone who supports Barack supports taxes cause the Dems position is higher taxes, more govt assistance.

    And it’s common practice to get the max for a lesser charge if he was so lucky to be acquitted on the higher ones. Race has nothing to do with it. He is a celeb and had to be stupid to think the IRS wouldn’t notcie he stopped filing when he was making a sh*tload. People of all races get in trouble for tax fraud all the time. Unfortunatley the evidence is not always strong enough (even if everyone knows the fraud occurred) to convince a jury to convict – this situation here was particularly egregious and SO SO obvious there was no way not to convict him of something.

  • pullovadatass2phat

    Damn it ain’t that hard to pay your taxes. Don’t think that just because you’re a celebrity that you can get around the law! Too bad Wes but you had it coming

  • http://Myspace.com/sybilblaize Sybil Blaize

    GOOD for hime, he beat HALLE deaf, and he’s wiife isnt Black so there Karama lollll

  • Crazy Ass Rodney

    oH no not Blade!!!!

  • Earth Sign

    Is income tax illegal??

    One of the reasons the way the IRS is enforcing income tax is because it contradicts the 5th amendment and it clearly states in the IRS code that income tax on a employees labor is optional. Something else I know about the 16th amendment is that it was suppose to be temporary and that it was targeted towards the income for a business on there goods and services not the individual employees labor. I think it’s the 5th amendment that states that an individual can not incriminate himself (self-incrimination) and the 16th amendment clearly contradicts this since tax payers have to file their own taxes and that is why many people in congress did not want to ratify the 16th amendment and it was never fully ratified. This has been a big issue for a very long time and for many many years cases have been won over and over again in the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court goes by the book most court below the Supreme Court do not. Not paying your income tax is very risky but if you get charged and can take your case to the Supreme Court your safe….

  • ThatBKChick

    Good lock that “Chi-Negro” up anyway…just like fools like him, only want to acknowledge his blackness and ish, when somthing is wrong! I ain’t hating, nor am I being racist by calling this fool a chi-negro (negro that wants to be chinese, we have a lot of them out here in the Bay Area). I have no pitty on this fool…he made over $50 dollars on the Blade trilogy and ain’t hardly paid NOTHING! Lock his tired ass away!

    Anyway good Luck with dat appeal Wes…especially if you doing Federal time in Jersey….you better brush up on your Blade tactics; you’ll need them in Jersey! LMAO!

  • Earth Sign

    Actually most of income tax does not go to our governemnt but to pay back the interest on the money that the gov’t borrows from the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is not a part of our gov’t, it is a private bank.

    THe income tax is only legal if you sign your w-4 when you start a job. There is no law saying you need to sign it, and other than signing your w-4 which says you will voluntarily give them money, there is no law requiring you sign it or pay it,as long as you do not sign a w-4.

    And BTW the 16th amendment was never lagally ratified on top of the fact that the 16th amendment goes against everything else in the constitution regarding aportioned taxes and nonaportioned taxes.

  • http://www.selectappraisalonline.com Kimmie in Cleveland

    I think the the sentence was VERY JUST. The man owes between 12 and 40 million dollars in taxes that he never paid. And he didn’t file for 3-5 years. Which is the reason the government is not really sure how much has gotten away with not paying.

    I understand very well the argument of income taxes being illegal.

    But guess what???

    Our former president, Bill Clinton, made $100 million last year, and $33 million he paid in taxes. All of the prosecutors, judges, and investigators who arrest and put people like Mr. Snipes on trial, are all tax paying citizens. The jury is full of people who also pay taxes.

    Don’t take chances with your freedom. If the president pays taxes, then we will ALL be expected to pay them, and held accountable if we don’t.

    Hell, even Al Capone and John Gotti were prosecuted and convicted on tax related charges. Leona Helmsley, Willie Nelson, Red Foxx…..the list goes on and on.

    He should have coughed up the money. Since he didn’t, he can give them 3 years of his life, and then get out and continue to live the high life. Small price to pay if you ask me…..

  • Earth Sign

    Im not against paying taxes in general, property taxes, car tax, medicaid etc, its just that paying income tax is not a law. Why are people getting locked up if its not a law?

  • IHavetoPayTaxesToo

    I don’t feel sorry for him. It’s more like greed. We all have to pay taxes. I am not rich or no where near it, but I know it’s part of my duty although I don’t like it or agree with it, but I dislike imprisonment more. He should have paid his taxes every year & filed every year. I do installments & he probably makes more in a day than I do all year. Greed will be your downfall. If you aren’t struggling to pay your bills the only reason for lying & cheating & trying to get more money is GREED. Hey, you can always pay the feds off for me in the sum of about $12,000. I will be the happiest person in the UNIVERSE. LOL

  • prisseme

    Who cares! Wesley doesn’t like black women. F him! Let Rice Woo but money on his books.

  • JAD

    @serafina…you said it right…Karen is a piece of garbage and she knows it. Only trash hides behind a computer screen talking sh**. What an ignorant b**ch.

  • B

    the way people are bloging saying that he should pay taxes that he owed to the government

    how does someone own money that you have worked for now let me think of a situation the Mafia, a pimp, and lastly slaves

  • tina

    I don’t really care what happens to him. It is funny how he remembers he is black when he is in trouble. I hope all of his asian lady friends run from his a** since he is now a convicted felon. Maybe he will take up with an asian inmate since black women are so repulsive to him.

  • tina

    The white racist bigot bloggers are rejoicing because he is black and the black people are rejoicing because he hates black women. I don’t think I ever seen anything like this before. I wonder if they have chopsticks and rice in prison. Don’t get mad Tito it’s the american way. ( Line from new Jack City) Nobody gives a F*** dumb ass!! Maybe the chinese ambassador can put in a few calls for you. LMAO

  • Kim

    It’s a joke for him to start claiming racism when he is the biggest racist around. I use to like Denzel, but if he actually wrote a letter on behalf of this man I no longer have respect for D. If Wesley was with a black woman those taxes would have been paid for sure.

  • anh

    here comes the new fools for 2008 wesley, yolanda, arethaand they are other but who cares if irs wants us to pay and some of us will never make the money they make so why care what happens to them. are they in your neighborhood donating any or helping a needed family are just spending like they don’t care let them all spend a little time and maybe the rest will think twice before they do. it.

  • California Pixie

    Snipes should be punished according to his crime. Not to mention, his lack of a prior record. They were all non-violent misdemeanors. He shouldn’t be in prison, he should be fined.

    USA Today is reporting the Government Accountability Office estimates that more than 60,000 federal contractors owe $7.7 billion in back taxes! Wal-Mart owes more than $17.7 million in back corporate income taxes! True Wesley Snipes owes $2.7 million in back taxes, but there are many in the back taxes line in front of him who owe a lot more being ignored to make a point!

    If people like Cheney can violate the laws, and Libby can just get a pardon for something more serious, then when people get punished severely for less, it’s just one big joke.

  • Bamchicawawa

    I THINK ITS MESSED UP HE HAS TO DO 3 YEARS FOR SOME TAX BS, BUT RAPPER T.I. ONLY GETS 1 YR.+ PROBATION FOR POSSESSING ILLEGAL SILENCERS, ASSAULT RIFLES, AND AMMO & HES IS 1-2 TIME CONVICTED FELON. IM STARTIN TO WONDER IF HE DID SNITCH TO GET HIS PLEA DEAL.

    ANYWAY OUT GOVERMENT IS TRULY FU*CKED UP!

    IM JUST SAYIN………

    OUR GO

  • sweetcake

    Karen,

    I know this is a discussion board about Wes, but I just wanted to know how old you are and where you are from? I can’t believe the racist comments you make about something as simple as tax evasion. I wonder what you say when you are really mad.

    I, personally, believe the justice system is discriminatory against blacks. I am black and I have seen it first hand. Karen, what are your thoughts about the policemen who got acquitted of all charges in the slaying of Sean Bell on his wedding day? Did his fiance play the race card?

    I think the point in bringing race into any equation is to prove a point. Wesley does deserve to go to prison, as should anyone who breaks the law, but if he were a white man he would not have gotten that much time. Please comment on this for me Karen. I really want to see if you are as ignorant as you sound.

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