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

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Big Time F'Up
Published 4/25/2008 by Perez Hilton at Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
The tax man is sending action star Wesley Snipes to jail for 3 years! Snipes has been fighting the IRS for the last decade claiming that he didn't owe the approximately $5 million they said he did. But then on Thursday, hours before Snipes was to be sentenced by the government, he cut the Feds three checks for the $5 mill, delivered in court. WTF? What an expensive way to admit you're wrong! Why didn't he just pay in the first place? Fed prosecutors were reportedly so ...

Wesley Snipes Shows Up In Court With $5 Million, Sentence Max 3 Years
Published 4/25/2008 at Tittle-Tattle Too - The Post Chronicle
Wesley Snipes left court officials in shock when he went into court Thursday and wrote a check to the federal government for $5 million. After nearly 10 years of a back and forth case regarding Wesley Snipes "not filing" for taxes, he has offered the government a check - and they've accepted. The AP reports: Hours before he was to be sentenced Thursday for failing to file income taxes he insisted he never had to pay, the action star cut the federal government three checks for $5 million, delivered in court. So taken aback were prosecutors that they first declined the cash. But ...

Wesley Snipes Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Published 4/25/2008 by Andrea at Bitten and Bound
... U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill addressed reporters outside the courthouse, saying, “The sentencing court sends the right message to the American taxpayer — you’ve got to pay your taxes.” “Rich, poor, it doesn’t matter. We all pay our taxes.” ...

Sugar Bits — Wesley Snipes Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
Published 4/25/2008 by PopSugar at POPSUGAR -- Insanely addictive.
... Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after being convicted of evading $2.7 million in taxes, despite his efforts to avoid jail by writing the government three checks for $5 million. — AP ...