Wesley Snipes ordered to surrender in tax case

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ORLANDO, FLA. — —

A federal judge on Friday ordered actor Wesley Snipes to surrender to authorities so he can begin serving a three-year prison sentence for tax-related crimes.

U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges in Florida rejected a request from the actor's attorneys to review Snipes' sentence and grant a new trial. Snipes has been free on bond for more than two years while appealing.

"The defendant Snipes had a fair trial; he has had a full, fair and thorough review of his conviction and sentence. … The time has come for the judgment to be enforced," the judge wrote in his 16-page decision.

The 48-year-old star of the "Blade" trilogy and Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" was convicted in 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax returns. He was acquitted of two more serious felony charges.

Full story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-snipes-20101120,0,3260770.story

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1. And in other news...

Exxon paid (you got to be kidding me) federal income taxes on (holy shit!) dollars in record profits.