The Associated Press: Actor Snipes gets 3 years, apologizes for `costly mistakes’
on Friday, April 25th, 2008
This just in. Actor Wesley Snipes is sentenced to 3 years in prison:
The Associated Press: Actor Snipes gets 3 years, apologizes for `costly mistakes’
After haggling with revenue agents, criminal investigators and eventually U.S. prosecutors for almost a decade, Wesley Snipes finally caught them by surprise.
Hours before he was to be sentenced Thursday for failing to file income taxes he insisted he never had to pay, the action star cut the federal government three checks for $5 million, delivered in court.
So taken aback were prosecutors that they first declined the cash. But by the end of the day, the government took the money and more — a maximum three-year sentence for its highest-profile criminal tax target in decades.
“The sentencing court sends the right message to the American taxpayer — you’ve got to pay your taxes,” U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill told reporters outside the usually quiet central Florida courthouse. “Rich, poor, it doesn’t matter. We all pay our taxes.”
Which is funny, because, to be quite honest, the message I got was, “Rich, poor, it doesn’t matter. He’s black.”
Not to mention the other message I got was, “White celebs that are arrested for violent bullshit, like driving drunk and putting people in physical danger, are less danger to society than a black man who didn’t pay the white man his due?”
Bon Jovi douche-bag guitarist, Richie Sambora, avoided prison time after arrested for driving drunk while his daughter was in the car.
Mischa Barton, a very uninteresting person that appears on some TV show, avoided jail for being white.
Now remember why I’m doing this. More black-person-going-to-jail action! Damn, that was sneaky, wasn’t it?
