Wesley Snipes was acquitted of conspiracy to defraud the IRS but found guilty on three of six counts of not filing a tax return (tax evasion) according to news reports. Snipes faces up to one year at ClubFed on each of the three misdemeanor counts, plus restitution to the IRS.
Snipes was acquitted of the more serious count of conspiracy to defraud the IRS. I think this is the best that Snipes could have hoped for as the evidence of him not filing and paying taxes was quite clear.
It will be interesting to hear what the jury’s reasoning was in acquitting Snipes.
Update: Snipes’ co-defendants, Eddie Ray Kahn, who founded a tax protest group, and Douglas P. Rosile, a former accountant, were convicted of tax fraud and conspiracy by the same jury.
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