Lesson learned is...celebs do your crimes in L.A. County, 'cause outside the thirty mile zone you.are.on.your.own.

Appalling that he's got 3 years in the clink for a victimless crime. It's not like he was driving the wrong way on the highway on-ramp or doing 360's in a high-speed chase. Noooo.

PaisleyPajamas

is he wearing one of OJ's gloves in that pic?

EuroDad

Wes, if you'd had just blown the D.A. like LiLo & Paris, you'd be out in hours.
Oh well, now you'll get 3 years of practice on your cellmate, for the next time you get arraigned.

Old No.7

Woody can give Denzel the down low about the procedure of visiting folks in the pokey.

gwendemarco

It's cos he's black. Damn the man. Can he get out after 3 days like other (loosely-used term coming up) celebs? You know -- say he has claustrophobia or something? Have a heart!

CakeAndDeath

I hope they don't cryogenically freeze him again, because we all know how that turned out the last time...

NoWireHangers

Passenger 57, meet Inmate 341196.

ky-jellydonuts

Whatever happened to that guy that supposedly never payed his taxes and then won in court when the IRS tried to charge him because supposedly there is no law about paying taxes. Is that all one myth or are some people just better in court?

LoveHandles

Upper or lower bunk, Wesley?

In Other News...

Everybody has to pay their taxes, he should too. He'll probably get out sooner though.

kylo4

@kylo4: Hope so.

@In Other News...: Allow me to rephrase: "No potential for blood-splattering, fender-crunching, shattered-glass or mourning families of a victimless crime."

In my opinion, he should have used the "conscientious objector to the War in Iraq" defense. Everybody's taxes are paying for that.

PaisleyPajamas

@PaisleyPajamas: "Victimless crime." What a load of utter crap.

In Other News...

aah, lovehandles, lovehandles... One day I followed a link to a Politico post. I got through three comments and fled, grateful for every minute I waste reading the literate and intelligent posts at Gawker. And now I find a commenter here who suspects the IRS is an extralegal bureaucracy preying on citizens with bad lawyers; it's the citizens with bad accountants.

itsalwaysthequietones

How cheap do you have to be... to make millions and not pay a piece of the bread in taxes.. Stop with the greed

ceokhan

I'm sorry, but Wesley is black. I'm a black man and I know that, Tiger and Barack notwithstanding, folks are just itching to see a many of us behind bars as possible. I'm not judging -- I'm just saying -- it's true. What the hell did he THINK they were going to do to him for not paying his taxes?

It'd be one thing if he were, say, a Kennedy and he'd just raped a girl then killed her with a golf club. Then he might have a shot at getting off. But this is America and he is a black dude. His black ass was jail bound from jump street.

donmiguel

This man is guilty of being LUDICROUS! Book him, Dan-O!

MrInBetween

Definitely not safe for work:
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Whiteboyfunfark

@itsalwaysthequietones:

I certainly meant no offense to your sensibilities. I'm attempting comparison of Snipes' crime to the recent celebutards' crimes of operating vehicles under the influence.

I pay my taxes like everybody else. Snipes' should too. I'm just pointing out that the punishment seems counterproductive if the IRS really wants to get paid. I think he's been made an example, and I feel bad for him. Tall poppies, and all that.

PaisleyPajamas

The government has never closed the loophole that states that we are only obligated to pay taxes in a time of war (which in my opinion is why Wesley got screwed). They did, however, remove the tiny, barely readable box, under the signature line at the end of the form that said "I do not wish to pay taxes this year." Let me use this opportunity to say, I dislike the government immensely.

BrainyHistorian

He and crooner Ron Isley, the original Mr. Big, can do a collabo on a new musical, "Trapped By the IRS"

yvonnjanae

@donmiguel: OK, you busted us. You know, it's kind of a relief but this is going to make it way more difficult for me to blame Marcus in Marketing for screwing up the video system in the conference room.

Little Mintz Sunshine

@Little Mintz Sunshine: Let's send Marcus to the big house too, dammit! (Ok, I was over the top with the shrill after rereading -- but my point was to deflate Snipes' hubris). You can't even claim stupidity - what could possibly have made him think he'd get off without doing the maximum?

donmiguel

@PaisleyPajamas: The IRS will still get paid. Jail time is not in lieu of his tax bill.

I also read that the government had asked for a $5 million fine, but the article doesn't indicate whether that was part of the sentence or not. With interest and penalties, Wesley's going to be doing voiceover work for South Korean commercials for a long time.

Scooter34

@LoveHandles: I thought originally his defense that he was that he (Snipes) according to the NYTimes "Mr. Snipes sent the I.R.S. a 600-page document in which he called himself a "nontaxpayer" and asked why the I.R.S. would not help him and others "in not complying with laws they clearly are not subject to." It goes onto say:
Mr. Snipes tried to get the trial moved to Manhattan, saying he could not get a fair trial because of a long history of Ku Klux Klan activity in central Florida, including a statue of a Klan leader a block from the courtroom.

Mr. Bernhoft argued Mr. Snipes should be acquitted because he does not live in Florida. But prosecutors presented the Florida driver's license of Mr. Snipes and a sworn statement, filed to get a homestead property tax break, in which Mr. Snipes declared his house in nearby Windermere, Fla., was his permanent residence.

One prosecutor, Scotland Morris, asked why, if Mr. Snipes sincerely believed he did not have to pay income taxes, he sent the government three phony financial instruments to pay $14 million in taxes. And he asked why the signature statement on a tax document was altered to say it was signed under "no" penalty of perjury.

He tried.

Superstarsteve

If the G wants to mess with the Daywalker, I hope they know what they're getting into.

Smitros

Farewell, Mr. Snipes! Next time, plead guilty. All the cool kids are doing it these days.

nick_r

He should get 2 years in prison for Murder at 1600 alone.

Hancook

I'm sure Woody gave Wesley all his Dad's former jaill contacts and he'll be JUST FINE. A little sore - but fine

NoGrumpys

@In Other News...: @In Other News...: thats so mean...

donnalyn

why such a long sentence? i understand he did not pay his taxes., and that is something "we have to do". however, making an example out of him with 3 yrs in prison., is insane!!! in the meantime., oj is out on the streets along with robert blake and whoever else got out of jail free card... the system seems to give the wrong punishments for the crimes commited in this country., it all depends on what judge you get, i would guess.... i feel bad for him that they he has to spend that long in jail. they could have gave him a choice to pay., and or a few months. this was not really a "vicious crime"!!! my god., have mercy!!!

donnalyn

@Superstarsteve: What you're telling me is that there's hope? As my new financial advisor, what say you about next years taxes... pay 'em or not?

LoveHandles

@donmiguel

Technically Michael Skakel is not a Kennedy. His father is the brother of Robert Kennedy's widow, Ethel.

jackass penguin

All this and not one Noxzeema Jackson joke???

Whiteboyfunfark

@jackass penguin:

Not only that, but he did finally get his comeuppance. Better late than never.

NotReadyForPrimeTime

@NotReadyForPrimeTime:

Amen to that. Now her mother can finally exhale.

jackass penguin