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The Guidelines are the product of the United States Sentencing Commission, which was created by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. [3] The Guidelines' primary goal was to alleviate sentencing disparities that research had indicated were prevalent in the existing sentencing system, and the guidelines reform was specifically intended to provide for determinate sentencing.
Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...
The previous standards for sentencing were lacking in detail, causing there to be sentencing disparity between judges. [19] [20] [21] The finalized Sentencing Reform Act that was produced the U.S. Sentencing Commission, made up of members chosen by the President, to create guidelines to help combat the sentencing disparity.
After a lengthy monologue extolling the history of sentencing guidelines, Kaplan praised Ellison's work with prosecutors, saying that he had "never seen [a cooperator] quite like Ms. Ellison ...
Ellison's sentencing set up a high-stakes balancing test. On one hand, as the CEO of Alameda Research, Ellison was a participant in one of the biggest fraud schemes in history.
Bobbi Jo Heiss, 36, is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston on Aug. 21, 2023, and faces a maximum statutory penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 ...
Subsection (a)(1)(A) of Section 666 prohibits the embezzlement, stealing, obtaining by fraud or otherwise unauthorized conversion to the use of any person other than the rightful owner or the intentional misapplication of property having a value of $5,000 or more by an agent, typically an employee, of an organization or of a state, local or Indian tribal government agency that receives $10,000 ...
Hernandez, who was fired from his TD Bank job before his arrest in August, faced between 8 and 10 years in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. His defense attorney, Bell, argued that ...