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Action Star Wesley Snipes Sentenced to 3 Years in Jail for Tax Fraud

Wesley Snipes is heading to the slammer. A Florida judge sentenced the "Blade" movie star to three years in jail today. Snipes was convicted of tax fraud in February for not filing his income taxes for at least three years. Snipes' attorneys had filed character-building testimonials from Denzel Washington, Woody Harrelson and television's Judge Joe Brown Wednesday, along with a sentencing memorandum recommending probation, not imprisonment. In February, a federal jury convicted Snipes on... Full Story
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