White Men Can't Jump, But They Can Write A Pretty Good Tax Evasion Indictment
The Smoking Gun reports that Wesley Snipes has been indicted for his involvement in a "bizarre tax avoidance scheme," in which he and two other men have been charged with trying to defraud the government of its fair share of the actor's mid-90s riches by claiming the obscure, oddly specific—and largely invalidated— "Section 57" tax code provision, which grants a massive refund to anyone who has ever mouthed the words, "Always bet on black!" without irony in a major Hollywood production. The Smoking Gun has the the details of the indictment, including the shocking revelation that Snipes somehow earned $19.2 million in 1997, a year in which his cinematic output was Murder at 1600 and One Night Stand (a fact that seems like an obvious red flag for possible fraud), as well as the document's dismissive description of Snipes as a defendant who "was a movie actor," an obviously intentional, unprofessional slight directed at his recent career.
