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Originally Posted by MRM
Snipes deliberately did not pay taxes for years, claiming he was excempt from taxes because the federal income tax is illegha - the usual tax protester stuff. His defense at trial was that he reasonably relied on the lunitic who told him he didn't have to pay taxes. He was acquitted of the most serious charge that would have resulted in several years of time in prison. He is a lucky man.
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If his sentence is in the same ballpark as other lower profile tax cheats I have no problem with it. If he was given a harsher sentence in order to set a very public example, then that's just not right.