Wesley Snipes 3 years prison

good i hated the movie Passenger 57 ....he deserves 5 years just for making that movie lol

Why? What he do?

is this about tax evasion?

"One Night Stand" sentenced him...

he wont get any prison time.

how about a link?

It's actually not that bad. I mean he'll maybe spend a year tops in prison, and it'll be a white collar one. He got out of paying tens of millions of dollars in taxes. Would you spend a year in prison at a country club for that kind of money?

Good he sucks

nix that, he tried to give the judge 5 million in checks and the judge declined..

yeah he wont go to big boys jail...just small timers jail

sucks to be him

wow this is crazy
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/24/...ing/index.html

Looks like his next movie will be called 'Shiv', thereby breaking the mold..

The maximum jail time that can be imposed is 3 years:

However, even if he gets the max sentence, I believe he already has some time served, and would likely only have to spend maybe about a year and a half or so in the pokey...

ADG

He has allready been sentenced the maximum.

Should have offered him ten.

That bastard! He cheated the Gov. out of about 10 Abrams tanks!!

And will be released early for good behavior or some other reason. Released after 12 months, couple years probation... Max.

He'll appeal and get it reduced. 3 years for a MISDEMENOR? Hell I've seen people running meth labs near schools get less time. I've seen people on their 5th DUI get less time. Most of the guys caught on To Catch A Predator for trying to fuck 12 year old girls get less time. God forbid you try to take a dime away from the federal government. I wonder if he'll go to the same place a the gay guy from Survivor who also failed to pay taxes got sent.

As far as I know in federal cases you can only chop off about 10% of your sentence MAX. At best he can get about 4 months off.

Well worth the money he made

Bye bye, Wesley.

The trial just concluded was a criminal trial, he still faces a civil lawsuit...

ADG

It's actually a felony...

actually you should learn to READ

"OCALA, Florida (CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for three misdemeanor counts of failing to file tax returns -- the maximum requested by federal prosecutors."

Damn,I can't believe he was that stupid..will probably blame his accountants

he dodged $41 million in taxes and only got fined $5 million and 3 years in jail ( 1 yr prob with good behaviour )

so 36 million for a year in white collar jail

sign me up.

He will still have to pay the taxes.

See post above.

He allready did. He was originally charged with multiple felony tax evasion charges but the judge agreed that his accountants were to blame. He actually got off light in that sense.

There is not much if any time off for good behavior in Federal prison.

What exactly did his accountants do that could have been twisted as being their fault?

I haven't been following the case at all... but I did see something a while back that made it seem like he was trying to say he wasn't paying taxes because it's unconstitutional?

I know people are living in the past if they think you can just be good and they let you go. 3 years means 3 years. 10% for not getting in trouble so 36 months is 32 or something like that.

The dudes fucked for awhile I guess because of his accountants? 50 million and he's worried about 5?

heh i thought he was going to get out of this one..

I wonder where all of those people who say income taxes are illegal and you don't have to pay them are hiding right now?

haha... that is funny!

no way! you got a link?

wow i cant believe that

i liked his movies :\

Still wouldnt want to be in his shoes no matter how much money he has

You obviously have no clue as to how the federal penal system works. Little Kim got a year and served 10 months in club fed. She only got 2 months knocked off for good behavior. So Snipes is looking at a minimum of 2 1/2 years.

so sorry to have offended your knowledge on prison


wasnt she charged with more serious crimes and already had a previous record ?

i dunno if it makes a difference , certainly wasnt trying to imply that i KNOW what he will get. I was always under the basic assumption you get 2/3 knocked off in white collar prison for good behaviour

guess i was wrong , heres the skinny on sentances and how much time you get off

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According to Title 18, United States Code, Section 3624(b), 54 days of GCT may be awarded for each full year served on a sentence in excess of one year. Since 54 days of GCT per year cannot be divided evenly into one year, or 12 months, or 52 weeks, or 365 days, determining the amount of GCT that may be awarded for the last portion of a year on the sentence becomes arithmetically complicated. To fix this, the BOP has developed a formula (hereinafter called the "GCT formula") that best conforms to the statute when calculating the maximum number of days that may be awarded for the time served during the last portion of a year on the sentence.

The GCT formula is based on dividing 54 days (the maximum number of days that can be awarded for one year in service of a sentence) into one day which results in the portion of one day of GCT that may be awarded for one day served on a sentence. 365 days divided into 54 days equals .148. Since .148 is less than one full day, no GCT can be awarded for one day served on the sentence. Two days of service on a sentence equals .296 (2 x .148) or zero days GCT; three days equals .444 (3 x .148) or zero days GCT; four days equals .592 (4 x .148) or zero days GCT; five days equals .74 (5 x .148) or zero days GCT; six days equals .888 (6 x .148) or zero days GCT; and seven days equals 1.036 (7 x .148) or 1 day GCT. The fraction is always dropped.

Since, in accordance with the statute (18 USC § 3624(b)), no GCT can be awarded to a sentence of one year or less, then the very shortest sentence that can be awarded GCT is a sentence of 1 year and 1 day. Because a prisoner would accrue GCT while serving a sentence of 1 year and 1 day and, therefore, serve something less than the full sentence, it would be impossible to accrue the full 54 days of GCT for a sentence of 1 year and 1 day. As a result, the GCT formula previously discussed must be utilized as shown below to determine the amount of GCT to award for a partial year. This method of calculating the GCT possible to award for the last portion of a year of a sentence to be served must be followed in all partial year calculations. (For the purpose of this demonstration, the sentence of 1 year and 1 day equals 366 days.)

Step No. 1

Sentence = 366 - 54 = 312 days

312 days served does not equal 54 days of GCT but does equal 46 days.

Step No. 2

Days Served = 312 x .148 = 46.176 = 46 days GCT

Subtracting 46 days from the sentence of 366 days results in 320 days to be served.


Step No. 3

Sentence = 366 - 46 = 320 days

46 days of GCT is not enough because 46 plus 312 days to be served equals a sentence of 358 days, 8 days short of a sentence of 366 days (1 year and 1 day).


Step No. 4

Time Served = 312 + 46 = 358 days

Comparing 320 days to serve, which is too much time to serve, with 312 days to serve, which is not enough time to serve, reveals that the amount of GCT that can be earned must fall somewhere between 54 and 46 days. As a result, the next step is to determine how much GCT can be earned on 320 days served.


Step No. 5

Time Served = 320 x .148 = 47.36 = 47 days GCT

Subtracting 47 days from the sentence of 366 days (1 year and 1 day)
results in 319 days to be served.


Step No. 6

Sentence = 366 - 47 = 319 days

Utilizing the GCT formula, it is learned that 319 days served equals
47 days GCT.


Step No. 7

Time Served = 319 x .148 = 47.212 = 47 days GCT

Adding 319 days time served to 47 days GCT does equal a sentence of 366 days (1 year and 1 day).

Step No. 8

Time Served = 319 + 47 = 366 days

The amount of GCT that can be awarded for a sentence of 366 days (1 year and 1 day) is 47 days.

The steps that were followed in the preceding example must be followed in every instance when it is necessary to determine the amount of GCT that can be awarded for a partial year served on a sentence. A short version of the preceding eight steps is shown below.

366 x .148 = 54.168 (366 + 54 = 420)
366 - 54= 312 x .148 = 46.176 (312 + 46 = 358)
366 - 46= 320 x .148 = 47.36 (320 + 47 = 367)
366 - 47= 319 x .148 = 47.212 (319 + 47 = 366)

Thus--319 days actually served plus 47 days of GCT equals 366 days, or a sentence of 1 year and 1 day.

oho, thats pretty bad indeed, I guess you wont get away with taxes!

That's not how I understood it. I thought he claimed he was given bad advice by accountants and tax advisers, so the jury convicted him on the misdemeanor charges, but acquitted him on the felony accounts, because they believed he was led astray, not necessarily because of the legality of filing.

goodluck to him

Sounds about right.

So after all that that formula comes out to be about 2 years 7 months. Which about what I said in the first place.

Not offended at all. I assumed it was common knowledge that FEDERAL sentences were more severe that STATE sentences.