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Wesley Snipes Prison Sentence Begins

Blade’s in The Big House…. Snipes was found guilty in April 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal income tax returns. He faced up to 16 years. The star surrendered shortly before noon EST to begin serving his 36-month sentence. He will be imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean in Bradford,

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Wesley Snipes to serve 3-year jail term

‘Blade’ star Wesley Snipes has been ordered to serve a three-year jail sentence for a felony tax conviction. The decision was handed over after a Florida judge rejected his bid for a new trial. Revoking bail for the 48-year-old star, the judge ordered him to report to prison as directed by the US Marshal”s Service

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Wesley Snipes’ appeal against tax evasion sentence denied

‘Blade’ star Wesley Snipes’ appeal against his 3-year prison sentence for tax evasion has been denied. Snipes, 47, was found guilty in 2008 of not filing tax returns from 1999 to 2001, and consequently failing to pay the government nearly 12,000,000 dollars, TMZ.com reported. He was sentenced to 36 months in prison, but he made

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