Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061017/D8KQIL4O0.html" target="_blank">http://apnews.myway.com/articl e/20061017/D8KQIL4O0.html</a> >>Actor Wesley Snipes was indicted Tuesday on eight counts of tax fraud for allegedly failing to pay nearly $12 million in taxes and failing to file returns for six years. Federal prosecutors in Tampa said Snipes fraudulently claimed refunds in 1996 and 1997 on taxes already paid, and then failed to file returns from 1999 and 2004. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 16 years in prison. The actor, who starred in the "Blade" trilogy and in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" and the 1992 blockbuster "White Men Can't Jump," has not been arrested because authorities don't know where he is, the IRS said. Snipes, 44, had a home in Windermere. According to the federal indictment, Snipes had his taxes prepared by accountants with a history of filing false returns to reap payments for their clients. As part of the deal, the indictment alleges, the firm, American Rights Litigators, would receive 20 percent of refunds from clients. In 2002, the Justice Department sued a Florida tax preparer who it said filed bogus tax refund claims, including a $7.3 million demand for Snipes. Snipes was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which said the preparer's largest claim was an amended income tax return filed on behalf of Snipes and dated April 14, 2001. The return requested a $7,360,755 refund for taxes paid in 1997 and said Snipes' adjusted gross income was zero, according to the lawsuit. It said the preparer, Douglas P. Rosile Sr., told clients that only income from foreign sources was subject to taxation. The resolution of that lawsuit could not be immediately determined. Separately, South Africa refused to admit Snipes in 2005 after officials said he tried to enter the country with a forged passport.<<
Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/17/061017174718.8j1izcik.html" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/news/ 2006/10/17/061017174718.8j1izcik.html</a> >>Hollywood star Wesley Snipes was charged Tuesday with failing to pay taxes and conspiracy in an indictment that could put the versatile actor and producer behind bars for more than 40 years. Federal prosecutors in Tampa released an "an eight-count indictment charging Wesley Trent Snipes, formerly of Windermere, Florida; Eddie Ray Kahn, of Sorrento, Florida; and Douglas P. Rosile, of Venice, Florida, with conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and presenting a fraudulent claim for payment to the IRS." "Each of the conspiracy and false claim charges carry a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment," prosecutors added, noting: "Snipes is also charged with six counts of failing to file income tax returns." "Snipes also faces up to one year imprisonment on each charge of failing to file income tax returns," they said.<< And the actual details from The Smoking Gun <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1017061snipes1.html" target="_blank">http://www.thesmokinggun.com/a rchive/1017061snipes1.html</a>
Originally Posted By Lisann22 After the consisteny in threads I see started call me crazy but I'm surprise he even uses the name "Dark"beer and not "Light"beer.
Originally Posted By goodgirl Darkbeer, I notice that you are always quick to post negative celebrity news when a black person is involved. Are you a racist?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer >>Darkbeer, I notice that you are always quick to post negative celebrity news when a black person is involved. Are you a racist?<< NO.... And I think many folks here will be happy to state that... I am a Tax Accountant, and this is a classic case of a scam (especially on the Preparer's side, it is a BIG No-No to base any sort of your fees based on the size of the refund). If Tom Cruise did this, I would have posted it just as quick.... But then again, I have also posted about Mr. Cruise in the past...
Originally Posted By woody >>Darkbeer, I notice that you are always quick to post negative celebrity news when a black person is involved. Are you a racist?<< Should he pass on a celebrity tax cheat? So what if Wesley Snipes is black.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA When did Snipes run? To where did he run? Will he stop running? Did he get the runs?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1886705.ece" target="_blank">http://news.independent.co.uk/ world/americas/article1886705.ece</a> >>Federal prosecutors said yesterday that they did not know the whereabouts of Mr Snipes, 44, and that he had not been arrested because officials were unable to locate him. The actor, who starred in the Blade movie series and also heads his own independent production company, faces a total of eight charges.<, Where is he hiding???? Somewhere out of the reach of the US authorities????
Originally Posted By SuzieQ I don't know. Where are you hiding? Would the authorities be able to know where you were at any moment? Saying he's on the run is a stretch. And while I typically log out before reading WE, so I'm not tempted to post, I do read. The overwhelming number of negative topics you start in this section regarding individuals are regarding people of color. Whether it's intentional or not, who know. I'm just telling you what I've noticed and not commented on to date. Of course, most of your topics across the boards have negative titles, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised?
Originally Posted By woody If you didn't notice, America is getting less white. I didn't know Mark Foley, George Bush, & Harry Reid are black.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Darkbeer, I notice that you are always quick to post negative celebrity news when a black person is involved. Are you a racist? >>> I am far from a fan of Darkbeer's posting style on WE but I must run to his defense on this issue: I've never seen anything that he's posted that would lead me to even remotely believe that his postings are racially biased or that his beliefs are racially biased, nor do I even suspect this to be the case. What I will point out is that the issue of focusing on any negative story about the "Hollywood left" or "Hollywood elite" is one of the handful of priority issues for Drudge Report. If you read Drudge Report carefully enough, and watch what they report and how they report it in relation to what other media outlets report and what a common-sense evaluation of what priorities should be tells you, you'll eventually notice that there are without doubt about a half-dozen priority issues for Drudge Report that will cause any story that matches them to be emphasized. One of those issues is anything that casts a member of the "Hollywood elite" in a negative light. These often fall under the guise of being human interest stories, but the pattern is unmistakable. To the extent that links to these stories are cut-and-pasted from Drudge to WE, you will see them over-emphasized here.
Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-101706snipes" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/enterta inment/news/la-101706snipes</a>,0,5745435.story?coll=la-story-footer >>Snipes' whereabouts could not be determined, said Steve Cole, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office for the Middle District of Florida. "We made an attempt to contact him through his attorneys and now with the news conference," Cole said in a telephone interview. "Maybe he'll find out from the media and turn himself in."<<
Originally Posted By xrayvision ^With that note taken, it seems that such articles would be more appropriately catagorized and posted under "General Entertainment" instead of "World Events." And, regardless of the resource (Drudge or whatever), there does seem to be an overemphasis in the "World Events" section of posting topics dealing with the fall down of minority celebrities or negative stories on Black-on-Black issues. Maybe this is the fault of the Dudge, the biased media reporting at large or the LP poster who continually feels the need to highlight such issues in this section. Who knows. But, I will say that there has been a reduction in such postings since last summer 2006.
