If this is not yet another wakeup call to our black celebrities to pay their taxes or to hire an accountant, then I don’t know what is. And you know what? I don’t feel bad for someone like a Mike Tyson or an MC Hammer or Ronald Isley aka Mr. Biggs. Because they should have known better or didn’t know any better at all. Instead of buying lions, tigers and bears (oh my!) and fifty cars, they should have hired an accountant or a financial advisor.

Read more of this mess under the hood. Dammit Nino Brown!

Wesley Snipes will serve three years behind bars and fined $5 million for tax evasion charges, if prosecutors get their way. The actor was convicted of failing to file his taxes for five years in February, and now prosecutors want a Florida judge to make an example of the star by handing him the maximum sentence possible as punishment for showing a “brazen defiance” of tax legislation.

Snipes has yet to comment on the prosecutors’ recommendation. He is due to be sentenced on April 24. (source)