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Khloe’s Going to the Pokey

Posted on 14 July 2008 by xXxTerra

Khloe Kardashian

According to Hollyscoop, sources have confirmed that Khloe Kardashian (Keeping Up with the Kardashians) will report to jail this Friday, July 18, 2008, to serve time for her DUI arrest last year.

“The judge is trying to make an example out of her,” said an inside source.
Kim and Khloe Kardashian

The 24-year-old was originally sentenced to 30 days, but will mostly likely serve less than 1 day.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Are we surprised?

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Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years for tax evasion

Posted on 24 April 2008 by CeCe

U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges announced in an Ocala, Florida courtroom Thursday that the man we all know and love from Blade is going to jail. Wesley Snipes, 45, was sentenced to three years in jail earlier today. He was first convicted of tax fraud in February on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return. Jurors acquitted Snipes of felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges.

Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years for tax evasion

But Snipes wasn’t convicted. If he had been found guilty of all the charges filed against him, he would be looking at a 16 year jail sentence. But Snipes couldn’t escape the long arm of the law for long.

Snipes sat solemnly as the sentenced was read. Some people were so surprised that they even gasped. (How dramatic!)

“I’m very sorry for my mistakes and errors. I apologize to my family, the court and the community,” Snipes said as his wife looked on. “I’ve asked the court to show me mercy and the opportunity to make things right.

Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years for tax evasion

Snipes’ attorneys even had filed character-building testimonials from Denzel Washington, Woody Harrelson and television’s Judge Joe Brown Wednesday, along with a sentencing memorandum recommending probation, not imprisonment.

Washington called Snipes a “great oak.” Harrelson, who starred with Snipes in Wildcats, wrote, “Wes continues to encourage and challenge me to be the best man I can be by being a constant friend.”

When Denzel can’t even save you, that’s when you know it’s bad.

Prosecutors claimed that Snipes did not file his tax returns from 1999 through 2004, but jurors concluded that he failed to file for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Look on the bright side, it was only 3 years instead of the original 5!

Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years for tax evasion

Snipes’ defense sought probation rather than prison time. “Wesley Snipes is not a dangerous man who needs to be imprisoned to protect the public,” Snipes’ attorney said in his sentencing memo. “He is contrite, promises that he will never again break the law, and respectfully asks the court to consider not just the jury verdict but also all the good that he has done in his life.”

Looks like that didn’t help either.

Snipes withheld tax returns based on his belief that the Internal Revenue Service is not a properly established government agency. According to the memo filed today, Snipes also stated that he did not file business returns because he “was personally not subject to taxation because he was a ’stateless person’ or ‘nonresident alien,’” or a “‘nontaxpayer,’” which prosecutors flatly rejected.

I can honestly say that I think most people don’t want to pay taxes. But their reasons are not as ridiculous as thinking the IRS isn’t a ‘properly established government agency’ like Snipes believes. At least if you aren’t going to pay your taxes, make your reasoning a bit more interesting.

In the sentencing memorandum, prosecutors cited Snipes’ “frivolous correspondence” with the IRS in regards to his tax returns and his alleged manner of hiding assets.

The memo states, “It was Snipes‘ policy to send checks received at his business office for deposit offshore.”

The court document added that the “amount of unreported gross income proved at trial” amounted to more than $13 million during the three-year period.

Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years for tax evasion

Additionally, prosecutors said, Snipes shelled out money to family members, close friends and other organizations, including “some $498,000 in personal payments to Snipes’ grandmother, his former wife, his then-fiancee, his personal lawyer, a tax defier organization, and M & S Finance, the Swiss alter-ego to which he fraudulently conveyed his business holdings in 1999.”

Swiss alter-ego!? Now that’s what I like to hear! Way to make it even more compelling, Mr. Snipes! This whole ordeal is starting to sound more like a movie plot gone bad.

I wonder if Wesley Snipes will play himself if this story ever makes it to Hollywood?

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More legal woes for Foxy Brown

Posted on 23 April 2008 by CeCe

Foxy Brown, who only last Friday was released from prison, is now running into more legal troubles.

She appeared in a Florida courtroom this morning for a status hearing on her pending assault case in the state. The charges stem from a February 2007 incident in which the rapper stands accused of spitting and throwing hair glue at a beauty supply store owner in Pembroke Pines.

More legal woes for Foxy Brown

According to the Sun-Sentinel, her attorney Fred Haddad officially withdrew from the case because of “irreconcilable differences” with his client. While it is unclear what exactly caused Haddad to leave the case, local news channel CBS 4 reports that she may have tried to broker a deal with prosecutors without the lawyer’s knowledge. Allegedly she would have only received six months probation if she accepted the plea deal.

Haddad had spent the past few months preparing a case for trial.

”I think the problem is she doesn’t like me,” Haddad said. “I have a problem agreeing to a plea deal. I didn’t negotiate this. I put a ton of work into this case.”

Broward County Judge Joel Lazarus gave Foxy until May 8 to inform the court of her new attorney’s name.

Looks like Foxy has gone all ‘Hollywood’ now that she’s out of the clink with a reality show in the works. I just hope she stays out of jail long enough to film it!

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Foxy Brown Released from the Slammer

Posted on 18 April 2008 by CeCe

Foxy Brown released from the slammer

Rapper Foxy Brown was released from Rikers Island prison Friday morning, after serving eight months of a 12-month sentence stemming from an assault of two nail salon stylists over a $20 manicure. Brown, 29, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was sentenced to three years’ probation in October 2006 for assaulting the stylists. But in September 2007 a judge ruled she was not taking probation seriously and sent her prison for one year.

Foxy took time out to hug and take pictures with the throng of fans who showed up to cheer her on. She is expected to begin work on a new reality series, which will show her easing back into life as a free woman, immediately.

Foxy Brown released from the slammer

Brown became the first female rap artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the U.S. pop chart encompassing all styles of music, with her 1999 album “Chyna Doll.”

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