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Wesley Snipes Caught In Ponzi Scheme: Report

First Posted: 3/18/10 Updated: 5/25/11

Wesley Snipes Ponzi Scheme

nypost.com:

Wesley Snipes can't seem to get anything right when it comes to his personal finances.

The notorious star of the hit "Blade" trilogy found a new kind of fame last year when he was sentenced to three years in jail for trying to fraudulently obtain $11.4 million of tax refunds between 1999 and 2001. He was also nabbed for willfully failing to file tax returns.

And now a court case in Britain has revealed that Snipes may have lost millions of dollars during that same period in an alleged Ponzi scheme.

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