Wesley Snipes famed for Passenger 57 (older readers) and the “Blade” trilogy (younger pups) found a new kind of fame last year. The action hero who showed white men that they couldn’t jump 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 reports NYP.

Adding to the suspicion that Wes is better with a ball or sword than he is with numbers is a recent court case in Britain revealing that he may have lost millions of dollars during that same period in an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Lincoln Fraser and Jared Brook, the two former bosses of a now-defunct British investment firm Imperial Consolidated, went on trial in London at the end of last month accused of defrauding as many as 3,000 victims out of nearly $400 million. One of whom was Wesley Snipes, hence the NYP’s snappy headline. Fraser and Brook deny the allegations but if they are found guilty, they can’t take comfort from the fact Snipes has a jail sentence because he is still wandering free pending an appeal and he has a mean roundhouse.