Snipes acquitted of tax fraud, conspiracy
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Actor Wesley Snipes was found guilty today on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns -- but jurors cleared him of more serious felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy. Snipes could be sentenced to up to three years in prison, but a lesser term is expected.
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OCALA, Florida  - Rather than file tax returns on an estimated $38 million in income, actor Wesley Snipes flooded the U.S. tax agency with correspondence that his lawyer admitted on Tuesday was sometimes "kooky, crazy and loony."
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An electrician was today convicted of murdering a wealthy Wall Street banker, following bombshell evidence from a British nanny. Daniel Pelosi was found guilty of bludgeoning
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A judge dismissed an indictment Friday against convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, ruling that the state waited too long to try him for capital murder in the death of an FBI analyst who was shot in a store parking lot.
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Actor Wesley Snipes, who has not turned himself in despite a Florida judge's order last month for his arrest on tax fraud charges, says he is not a fugitive and will "abide by the law," according to a Florida newspaper columnist.
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Conrad Black, the former head of a newspaper empire, was convicted today of mail fraud and obstruction of justice but acquitted of several other counts.
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A federal jury in Chicago acquitted two men yesterday of charges that they were part of a long-running conspiracy to finance Hamas activities in Israel -- marking the latest defeat for the Justice Department in cases involving support for radical Palestinian groups.
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GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania - A case of funny money has ended happily for a woman who had been charged with passing a bogus $200 bill with President George W. Bush's picture on it.  Prosecutors in Pennsylania's Westmoreland County dropped all charges Friday against Deborah L.
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Wesley Snipes may have to waive a claim that he previously received ineffective counsel, a judge said Tuesday after jury selection concluded in the actor's tax trial.
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OCALA, Florida  - Defense attorneys clashed with the prosecution on Wednesday in Wesley Snipes' tax fraud trial over whether the actor conspired with a longtime tax protester to defraud the government of millions of dollars.
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From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies, including two sequels to his popular vampire thriller âBlade.â The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero. But unlike other celebrities who find t...
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Operators of one of Pennsylvania's largest egg farms were acquitted of animal-cruelty charges that were based on video shot by an undercover animal rights activist posing as a farm employee.
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Wesley Snipes was released on $1 million bond after pleading not guilty to federal charges including falsely claiming millions of dollars in tax refunds, two months after he was indicted in central Florida.
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A financial adviser has testified that he warned Wesley Snipes that he could get into trouble if he didn't pay his taxes.
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The former head of the US Secret Service&#39;s forensic lab was acquitted Tuesday on two counts of lying repeatedly on the stand as the gvernment&#39;s ink expert at the Martha Stewart trial.
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A federal judge has denied Wesley Snipes' most recent request to have his tax-evasion trial moved from this central Florida city.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Actor Wesley Snipes pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he illegally claimed millions of dollars in tax refunds and was allowed to quickly return to an African movie set, U.S. prosecutors.