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From a quick google search (not promising this is 100% accurate, but I searched for sentencing minimums) 1) Wire fraud: 121-151 months 2) Securities fraud: 6-
by makestuff 4y ago
From a quick google search (not promising this is 100% accurate, but I searched for sentencing minimums)
1) Wire fraud: 121-151 months
2) Securities fraud: 6-36 months base (there are multipliers apparently)
3) money laundering: 70 month average is all I could find
4) Campaign finance: seems to be more monetary based
Not sure how a plea deal/severity of charges would change this though. Ex: when you are committing billions in fraud that probably has different guidelines than the average securities fraud of a few million or whatever.
- tptacek 4y agoFraud is a 2b1.1 crime, so the sentence scales with the "losses" to the victims; you can get +30 levels off that alone, which catapults the sentence into double digits.
- anigbrowl 4y agoIt strikes me as a weakness in our system that this is keyed to the $ amount. You can defraud a person of modest means of $50,000 and wipe them out financially; you could defraud some rich people of $2 billion without it impacting them in the slightest. This strongly incentivizes preying on the weak.