Wesley Snipes Gets Three Years For Tax Fraud

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A judge sentenced Wesley Snipes to three years in prison for tax evasion yesterday. TMZ reports

Snipes was convicted in February on three misdemeanor charges for not filing his taxes. The government claimed he owed $2.7 mil — but Snipes’ attorneys argued it was just $228,000. No fine was imposed, but the three-year sentence was the max he could have gotten.

Snipes was not forced to surrender immediately. Instead, the judge ruled he could surrender at a later date, closer to his New Jersey home.

A fair sentence, to be sure. Only a year for each of the Blade movies. That’s a cake walk. I would have thrown in the Judas Cradle or the Spanish Donkey just for “Too Wong Foo” alone. Something with a little more bite and 16th century Germanic Europe feel to it. There’s not a single modern-day equivalent evil enough to slake the cinematic sin that was Noxeema Jackson.