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Wesley Snipes petitions court to leave country

AP — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:48:48 +0000

Lawyers for Wesley Snipes are asking a Florida judge to let the 45-year-old actor leave the country while they appeal his three federal tax convictions.Snipes wants to work on two films, “Gallowwalker” and “Chasing the Dragon,” in London and in...

Wesley Snipes to remain free pending 3 tax convictions

AP — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:42:53 +0000

Wesley Snipes will be allowed to remain free on bail as he appeals three federal tax convictions.Judge William Terrell Hodges granted Snipes’ motion for bail Thursday pending appeal of his case, saying Snipes doesn’t pose a flight risk...

Snipes seeks bond as he appeals tax convictions

AP — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:37:22 +0000

Wesley Snipes must surrender to prison authorities June 3 if he isn’t granted bail to appeal three federal tax convictions, defense lawyers said in a court filing.Snipes’ attorneys plan to argue before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of...

Snipes' attorneys to appeal tax conviction, 3-year sentence

AP — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:28:07 +0000

Lawyers for Wesley Snipes have filed notice to appeal his federal tax conviction.The 45-year-old action star was sentenced to three years in prison last week on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax returns. He will...

Actor Snipes gets 3 years, apologizes for `costly mistakes'

AP — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:36:01 +0000

After haggling with revenue agents, criminal investigators and eventually U.S. prosecutors for almost a decade, Wesley Snipes finally caught them by surprise.Hours before he was to be sentenced Thursday for failing to file income taxes he insisted...

Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years in prison for tax convictions

AP — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:56:04 +0000

Wesley Snipes called on famous friends to vouch for him, highlighted his clean criminal record and even wrote the government $5 million in checks _ all in an effort to convince a judge that his conviction on tax charges should cost him nothing more...

Judge sentences Snipes to 3 years for tax convictions

AP — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:04:03 +0000

Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison on tax charges Thursday, a victory for prosecutors who sought to make an example of the action star by aggressively pursuing the maximum penalty.Snipes’ lawyers had spent much of the day in...

Prosecutors seek hard sentence for Snipes in tax trial

AP — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:19:51 +0000

There is a perception, federal prosecutors fear, that Wesley Snipes emerged victorious from years of IRS investigation and a highly publicized tax trial.And there is some truth to that. Snipes was acquitted in February of five of eight counts _...

Prosecutors: Snipes should serve maximum for tax crime

AP — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:13:29 +0000

Federal prosecutors say actor Wesley Snipes should serve the maximum possible penalty for failing to file a tax return.Prosecutors say in court documents filed Monday that Snipes’ case “cries out” for him to serve the maximum,...

Snipes Trial Offers IRS Perfect Script

AP — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:37:08 +0000

Even Hollywood couldn’t have written a more ideal script for the Internal Revenue Service than actor Wesley Snipes’ tax-fraud trial.At a time when millions of Americans are buckling down to prepare their taxes, Snipes is being cast as a...