Federal Prosecution Sticks Wesley Snipes With The Bill

Wesley Snipes can not win for losing. Snipes was recently convicted on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a federal tax returns for the years 1999, 2000 and 2001. He was sentenced in April 2008 to 36 months in federal prison, is currently free while he appeal his case.

The government wants Snipes to pay $217,363, which includes $21,052.19 for the time and travel expenses of witnesses, many of whom were IRS employees; $193,716.98 for the cost of scanning, printing and copying documents used in the case (including 260 boxes of documents seized from the Florida firm that prepared Snipes’ responses to the IRS) and $2,456.40 for daily trial transcripts. There is also a fee of $138.18 charged to this tab for certified color copies of trial exhibits.

Looks like Snipes is paying for his own legal and paying for the prosecution to put his azz in jail.

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