Blade is going to jail. Wesley Snipes in bad tax trouble.

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He ran from Tommy Lee Jones in the movie U.S. Marshals. He ran with and after bad guys in The Money Train. He ran after vampires in Blade.

This time, Snipes faces real-life trouble: Tax fraud charges
Now actor Wesley Snipes may want to run for real, though that probably wouldn't be a good idea.

He has been charged with failing to file income tax returns and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, the agency said Tuesday.

The story's moving out of Florida, and the St. Petersburg Times has more. It reports that Snipes, 44, and two other men are charged with filing "a fraudulent claim for payment to the IRS." They allegedly filed an amended return for Snipes, "saying he was owed the return of almost $12 million in income taxes," the Times reports.

No reports yet on what Snipes has to say about the indictment.

You know what? I can't stand it when these dumb ass people, with a lot of money, pull this kind of crap. You get what you deserve if you aren't paying your taxes.

Hey, you ever play roulet? Always bet on black!

-HECK!

I'm sure that he will say that he had no idea that it was a fraud filing... and that his tax person did it all, so that he could get more money.

I hope he cuts the IRS in half, then sticks them with a silver nitrate spike. Then I hope the IRS explodes into dusty glittery nothingness.

One could only wish....

Hell, couldn't we just have the worlds largest electrical storm, and all of our financial records just disappeared, forever?

I'm curious as to whether he will try to skip the country. Last I heard he wasn't in the states anyway. He may try to just go to some island and chill out for the rest of his life.

I don't know what he will do... but come on, would you just run away, instead of paying this stuff off, when you're that famous? It's not like he's some unknown, two bit, hustler.

Well, they were saying on the news, up to 13 years in prison. I don't see that really, but there is a chance he could do some hard time.

I wouldn't want to risk it. I would settle down somewhere and take it easy.

Even if he paid all the money, he'd still spend time in jail, wouldn't he?
Well, he broke the law... and he is going to pay for it.

If he chooses to hide out, he's going to have a very sad life.