The Snipes defense rested without offering any witnesses. His legal team didn’t feel that any argument or witnesses were needed, saying: “We could have put on a big show, but we don’t do that. We’re not going to waste the jury’s time.” The same team that had claimed that their portion of the trial could…
Just perfect on a Monday morning – this film made me giggle. Enjoy!
Wesley Snipes cannot, as my mother would say, win for losing. As one of his many, many claims and motions filed in his tax evasion case, the star of “Blade” had argued that two of his attorneys were unfit for trial. Now, he wants one of them back. Daniel Meachum tried to rejoin the Snipes…
Will Muhammad Ali deliver a knockout punch in favor of actor Wesley Snipes? The former heavyweight champ and “Sportsman of the Year” is one of many names that attorneys for Wesley Snipes presented at trial as potential character witnesses. Other names that were mentioned as potential witnesses to vouch for what a good guy Snipes…
I hear the weather’s lovely there this time of year. US District Judge William T. Hodges has ruled that Wesley Snipes’ federal tax-evasion trial will go forward in Ocala, Florida, despite a plea from Snipes’ attorney to move the trial to New York to avoid what he calls “a hotbed of KKK activity.” This is…
Wesley Snipes has even more to say about his tax evasion charges. So far, he’s made claims that he is being unfairly targeted because he’s black; he can’t get a fair trial in Ocala, Florida because it is a “hotbed” of KKK activity; his attorney was unfit for trial; and has compared himself to a…
In an update to my previous story about Stephen Yagman, the National Law Journal has reported that Yagman received three years in federal prison after being convicted earlier this year on bankruptcy fraud and tax evasion. Yagman will likely retire in prison: he is 63 years old. Yagman was also sentenced to two years of…
He was the “expert in civil rights legislation” (according to his own web site who was convicted of federal tax evasion, money laundering and bankruptcy fraud charges. Yagman’s hearing for sentencing was earlier this week. He has asked the court to spare him jail time based on his health and the potential for personal harm…
I’m so over Snipes and his whining already. Snipes’ attorney claims that he can’t get a fair trial in Ocala. His attorney has filed a motion to have the trial moved to New York because he claims “the government chose the most racially discriminatory venue available, with the best possibility of an all-white Southern jury.”…
While folks in Washington have seemingly come to terms with the idea that Blackwater might have killed some folks when they shouldn’t have, they are drawing the line where it hits Americans the hardest: cheating on taxes. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has made public a letter from IRS to Blackwater from March (yes, March) regarding…