{"id":1036,"date":"2007-10-12T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T13:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/10\/12\/local-lawyer-defending-wesley-snipes\/"},"modified":"2011-10-28T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:27:42","slug":"local-lawyer-defending-wesley-snipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/local-lawyer-defending-wesley-snipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Lawyer Defending Wesley Snipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that a Milwaukee lawyer is hired to represent a Hollywood actor, so I have to mention this one. Wesley Snipes has fired Billy Martin, and hired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernhoftlaw.com\/our_team.htm\">Robert Bernhoft<\/a> of The Bernhoft Law Firm. Bernhoft represented Snipes previously in a paternity suit, and is now on board to help defend against<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/accounting\/taxfraud.htm\"> tax fraud allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Snipes was in a bit of trouble though, because his tax fraud trial was set to start next week in Florida. The judge wasn&#8217;t too happy that he fired his lawyer and got a new one, and then asked for the trial to be continued. The judge thought it was all a ploy to delay the trial.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So Bernhoft wrote a long brief on a motion for reconsideration, and he listed all the reason why Billy Martin had to be fired, including his failure to prepare for the trial, bad lawyering in Michael Vick&#8217;s dog fighting case, and the distraction of representing foot-tapper Senator Larry Craig.<\/p>\n<p>The trial has been continued by the judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often that a Milwaukee lawyer is hired to represent a Hollywood actor, so I have to mention this one. Wesley Snipes has fired Billy Martin, and hired Robert Bernhoft of The Bernhoft Law Firm. Bernhoft represented Snipes previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[826],"tags":[1408,976,1409],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes-tax-fraud","tag-robert-bernhoft","tag-tax-fraud","tag-wesley-snipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}