Another day, another celeb heading to jail. Wesley Snipes has failed in his attempt to get his jail sentence for tax evasion overturned. In February 2008, a court in Ocala, Fla., sentenced him to three years in jail for willfully failing to file tax returns for 1999 to 2004. During that time he earned more than $38 million appearing in several movies but was was accused of squirreling away from Uncle Sam nearly $14 million in unpaid taxes using various shell corporations and secret offshore accounts. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges did not err when he handed the Snipes the maximum term after a jury found him guilty.

Per The Sun:

His lawyers argued that he should get probation instead for failing to file tax returns. But appeal judges in Atlanta have now ruled the original court acted “well within its discretion”. Yesterday, Snipes’ lawyer Daniel Meachum said: “Obviously we are extremely disappointed.”

Snipes had hoped to either have the sentence overturned altogether and his conviction dismissed or win a new trial on the grounds of a technicality – that he should have been allowed a hearing to decide whether his trial could be held in New York instead of Florida. He was also pinning its appeal on the fact that his former financial adviser, Kenneth Starr, was arrested and charged in May with securities fraud totaling $59 million. Snipes’ lawyers claimed that prosecutors knew that the money man was under federal investigation at the time he testified against Snipes, and therefore that testimony should have been considered tainted. There’s no indication when Snipes will report to serve his sentence, but a district judge will now set a date for Snipes to hand himself over.

See Wes, you should of just filed the tax returns and paid the taxes. You do the crime you pay the time. It’s good to see that a court isn’t going to let him off the hook just because he’s famous.

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