Tax crime doesn’t pay — coverage of tax fraud, evasion, and financial crime prosecutions, and what they mean for the rest of us.
An Internal Revenue Service tax examiner was arrested this week on charges that he used IRS records to examine personal information of celebrities (and his neighbor). John Snyder, an IRS tax examiner based in Kentucky, is charged with looking up personal information for 197 celebs. Exactly which celebrities merited such prying by Snyder? The list…
Wesley Snipes better enjoy his Memorial Day weekend. If he doesn’t win his appeal, it may be the last holiday weekend that he enjoys for a few years. Snipes was scheduled to report to federal prison on June 3 but was granted a reprieve. Nonetheless, Snipes will eventually have to surrender to federal prison authorities…
Lou Pearlman, the man who (a) created some of the most successful boy bands in music history or (b) kickstarted a trend that killed the music industry – depending on your point of view – was sentenced to 25 years in prison following a plea in March to two counts of conspiracy and single counts…
Melanie Taylor should feel comfortable behind bars: her participation in a tax fraud scheme with prisoners will likely land her in prison. Taylor has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to tax fraud charges stemming from a scheme that she ran with inmates at the Maryland Department of Corrections and other prisons. The tax losses are said…
I mean, his legal appeal, of course. I don’t get his media appeal – other than White Men Can’t Jump, which was admittedly entertaining, I am not a fan. Blade, in particular, just isn’t my cup of tea. That said, in legal news, lawyers for Wesley Snipes have filed notice with the 11th Circuit to…
Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent J. Fumo is facing charges on 139 indictments including 2 counts each of filing false tax returns and aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. Gilbert Coleman, Jr., senior pastor of Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia, believes that those charges have made Fumo an angry man. Gilbert…
After being sentenced to the maximum three years in federal prison for his convictions on tax evasion charges, Wesley Snipes vowed to appeal. Interestingly, just before the sentence was announced, Snipes asked the court to show mercy and paid $5 million. His checks were cashed – to be applied towards the amount Snipes allegedly owes…
Wesley Snipes has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his conviction on tax evasion charges. I’ll post more information as it becomes available.
Unfortunately, those judges that did say good things on Snipes’ behalf don’t really matter in this case… Yep, TV judges Joe Brown and Greg Mathis offered character references for Wesley Snipes for his sentencing hearing. Judge Joe Brown noted that he was writing “not as a celebrity” (good because I don’t know that I would…
If you’d like to read the entire argument made in favor of the maximum sentence, you can read the US Sentencing Memorandum here by downloading it as a pdf (it’s 37 pages!).