Wesley Snipes is in some deep shit for not paying his taxes.

A jury found the 45-year-old action star guilty of willfully failing to file taxes for three years, in which the government said he owed $2.7 million. Snipes was acquitted in February of three identical counts and two felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy.

Still, prosecutors are pressing the judge for the maximum sentence of three years in prison. They say Snipes is a “notorious” offender who dogged the IRS for years.

Hey, we would totally not pay taxes if we could get away with it. The guy just thought he could get away with it, why all the fuss?

Luckily, Snipes had his celebrity backers with him and The Smoking Gun got their grubby hands on the character reference letters from Denzel Washington and Woody Harrelson.

Woody Harrelson has a great little story about Snipes lecturing him about racism on the set of Wildcats and Denzel Washington goes into a weak “mighty oak” metaphor.

At least the guy has real lawyers.

Read the Harrelson and Washington letters after the jump!