Government Seeks Three Year Sentence For Wesley Snipes

Prosecutors on Monday filed a sentencing memorandum which recommends that actor Wesley Snipes be sentenced to three years in prison and fined $5 million. Snipes was convicted February 1 on three misdemeanor counts of failure to file federal income tax returns for 1999-2001; however, he was acquitted on the two felony counts he faced andon three misdemeanor failure to file counts for 2002-2004. In calling for the maximum sentence and an upward departure from the guidelines for the fine, the government appears to be seeking enhancements for the acquitted charges. Snipes is scheduled to be sentenced on April 24 (Reuters, Snipes sentencing memorandum).