Wesley Snipes released from prison after serving three years for tax evasion.

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Wesley Snipes was released this week from a Pennsylvania prison and transferred to house arrest after being admitted in 2010 on charges of federal tax evasion.

According to TMZ, the 50-year-old actor left the Mckean Federal Corrections on Tuesday, several months shy of his 36 month sentence.

Snipes is no longer listed as an inmate at the rural facility. He is listed now on the website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons as being under the watchful eye of the New York Community Corrections Office.

Officers will keep a watchful eye on the actor as he finishes out his sentence under home confinement, which the FBP lists as July 19.

The Passenger 57 actor was found guilty of not paying as much as $15 million in dividends to the government for his earnings from 1999 to 2001.

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His lawyers argued that his tax advisers, had duped their client with a claim that there were no laws requiring him to pay tax.

And he believed them? Well it's easy to when you hear what you want to hear. A lesson for everyone.