Hit's Like Mays, Run's Like Hayes, But Pays Taxes Like Snipes

Actor Wesley Snipes a.k.a. Willie "Mays" Hayes from our favorite baseball movie of all-time Major League is in big time trouble with Uncle Sam.

An eight-count indictment unsealed by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Tuesday charges Snipes, tax preparer Douglas Rosile and tax-shelter promoter Eddie Ray Kahn with conspiracy to defraud the IRS and submitting false estimated-tax payments worth millions to the agency.

Snipes is also charged with six counts of failure to file income tax returns since 1999.

The indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury last week in Jacksonville, Fla., says Snipes sent bogus checks worth $14 million to the IRS for his estimated tax liabilities in recent years.
Snipes, 44, also attempted to receive, but did not get, refunds worth more than $11 million from taxes he already had paid in 1996 and 1997, according to the indictment.

Hayes, rather, Snipes could get up to 6 years in prison if convicted of both crimes. We still love you Willie, you helped the Tribe win a pennant.


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