PA prison receives Snipes for jail sentence

Snipes has reported to jail. He started serving his sentence following a protracted court battle. Snipes reported to a Pennsylvania jail to start serving his sentence on Dec. 9th. Snipes, convicted of neglecting to file income tax returns, will serve up to three years. Apparently there wasn't a pay day loans large enough to purchase off his freedom with this one.

Wesley Snipes getting to prison term finally

Actor Wesley Snipes reported to prison today, Dec. 9, in Pennsylvania, according to ABC. He will start serving his three-year sentence at McKean Federal Correctional Institution, located in Lewis Run, Penn. Snipes, now Bureau of Prisons inmate number 43355-018, is likely to be housed within the minimum security wing of the prison, a facility located adjacent to the main prison. The minimum security wing is usually used to house white collar inmates who pose the least risk of violence. Still, Snipes is incarcerated in a federal prison, and will likely serve at least 26 months of his 36 month sentence.

Forever legal battle

Staying out of prison had been Wesley Snipes' goal. This is why he went through the legal battle. Earlier this year, a federal judge in Florida ordered Snipes to begin serving his sentence. Wesley Snipes had appealed his sentence, which is not actually for tax evasion. The definition of tax evasion is when a person willfully tries to evade paying taxes, as Wesley Snipes and Larry King discussed. Since Wesley Snipes just didn't fail a tax return, he wasn't tax evasion though. Advisors told Snipes they were filing his returns. He thought it had been getting done. The firm he hired wasn't filing. They were defrauding him instead.

Numerous stars getting convicted with charges of finance

White collar crimes were committed by other celebrities besides Snipes. Jail time was given to them. Martha Stewart served six months for insider trading related charges, and hotel magnate and heiress Leona Helmsley had been incarcerated for tax charges also. Then there was Willie Nelson who owed the IRS so much. He wrote a song called "The IRS Tapes: Who'll Purchase My Memories?" after getting his house back after it was taken from him.

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ABC News

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