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Wesley Snipes will do hard time for tax evasion
By April MacIntyre Jul 18, 2010, 19:29 GMT
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Wesley Snipes is going to do hard time in prison for tax evasion.
A federal appeals panel in Atlanta upheld the three-year prison sentence for Snipes according to an opinion published Friday by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The NYPost reports that Snipes is going to serve real time: "The district court acted well within its considerable discretion in sentencing Snipes to thirty-six months in prison," the federal opinion stated.
Snipes was found guilty on three misdemeanor counts for failing to file income tax returns for 1999 through 2001 on a reported income of over 38 million dollars. He was found to owe about $17 million in back taxes, penalties and interest according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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