Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax-fraud and conspiracy charges Friday, but was convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return. Snipes faced 16 years in prison, but now may face only 3 years. He could get probation. Co-defendants Eddie Ray Kahn, the founder of a tax protest group, and Douglas P. Rosile, the accountant, were convicted by the same jury ...

Actor Wesley Snipes was acquitted of federal tax fraud and conspiracy charges in Ocala, Fla., this afternoon, but a jury convicted him on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return, meaning he still faces up to three years in jail. The 45-year-old action star was indicted in 2006 (along with two co-defendants, Douglas P. Rosile, a de-licensed accountant and Eddie Ray Kahn, a ...

The defense in the tax fraud and conspiracy trial of Wesley Snipes rested Monday. Snipes, Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas P. Rosile were named in an eight-count indictment. Snipes and the co-defendants allegedly stopped filing his federal tax returns in 2000, demanded some $11 million in refunds on taxes previously paid and tried to settle other U.S. Treasury debts with fake checks. All three were