Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse government for prosecution costs

Steve Hudak
Orlando Sentinal
Wednesday, Aug 6, 2008

Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse the government for the cost of prosecuting him.

U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges rejected the actor’s arguments that U.S. attorneys were billing him for expenses they incurred prosecuting the tax crimes of Snipes’ co-defendants, including anti-tax guru, Eddie Ray Kahn of Sorrento.

Snipes, 46, must pay $217,363.75.

The Orlando-born actor, star of the science-fiction trilogy, “Blade; “White Men Can’t Jump;” and the sequel to “The Fugitive,” is free on bond while his defense team appeals his conviction on three misdemeanor counts of willfully failing to file a federal tax return.

If his convictions and sentence are upheld, Snipes faces 36 months in prison.

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The prosecution costs include a fee of $193,716 for scanning, printing and numbering documents seized from the Lake County offices of American Rights Litigators Inc., the now-defunct, anti-tax organization that advised Snipes how to avoid his tax obligation.

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