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He’ll be grateful to have some credit for time served once he’s sentenced.
by danielfoster 3y ago
He’ll be grateful to have some credit for time served once he’s sentenced.
- wmf 3y agoSix weeks won't do much against 100 years.
- School-Cotton 3y agoDo people really get life sentences for crimes that don’t involve causing death or physical harm to others?
- dpkirchner 3y agoMadoff did, but I only know that because it was remarkable enough to be big news.
- bemusedthrow75 3y agoThree-strikes lifers exist, yes -- a system where your most recent crime is punished as an extension of a previous crime, even if the time was served. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummel_v._Estelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rummel_v._Estelle
- hnfong 3y agoScamming and embarrassing the American Elite seems to be pretty serious crimes over there...
- fastball 3y agoFederal sentencing guidelines take into account many things. You get (bad) points (called levels) for how many people you harmed, dollar value of the harm, whether or not you used "sophisticated" means, etc, etc. These points are then converted to a sentence length according to this[1] chart. The main contributor in a case like this is going to be the dollar amount of the fraud (which is huge), as those points stack up quickly, capping out at 30 levels for a fraud of over $550M. So if as assume he gets the highest level, that's 30 levels on its own, which if you read the guideline chart linked means a recommended sentence of 8 years for a first time offender just from those levels alone. Add all the other levels in and you can get to 43 (life imprisonment for first time offenders) pretty quickly. [1] https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manual/2021/Sentencing_Table.svg https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manu...