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Wesley Snipes Ordered to Report to Prison

Wesley Snipes has been ordered to report to a Pennsylvania prison no later than Dec. 9 to begin his three-year sentence on tax-evasion charges, according to Reuters. Get more of today's news Snipes, who was convicted for willful failure to file federal income tax returns, was denied ...

Gina DiNunno
Gina DiNunno

Wesley Snipes has been ordered to report to a Pennsylvania prison no later than Dec. 9 to begin his three-year sentence on tax-evasion charges, according to Reuters.

Get more of today's news

Snipes, who was convicted for willful failure to file federal income tax returns, was denied a motion on Wednesday to remain free while appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court .

The 48-year-old actor has until noon on Dec. 9 to surrender himself to the Federal Correction Institution McKean of Lewis Run, Penn. — a medium-security facility for men with an adjacent satellite prison camp for minimum-security male inmates.

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Snipes was convicted in April 2008 in Ocala, Fla., on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file his income tax returns from 1991 to 2001.