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You can plug facts of the case into a sentencing calculator like https://www.sentencing.us/ https://www.sentencing.us/ to estimate sentencing guidelines. Senten
by jcranmer 3y ago
You can plug facts of the case into a sentencing calculator like https://www.sentencing.us/ https://www.sentencing.us/ to estimate sentencing guidelines. Sentencing guidelines generally work by look at each offense, compute an "offense level" based on facts of that offense, take the maximum of all offenses [1], and then combine that with a criminal history to yield a range.
I don't know enough of the details to plug it in to get an accurate estimate, but I'm pretty sure he managed to hit the maximum fraud offense level, at which point I'm getting an offense level of 40, which for a first time offender, is 24-30 years. Which is high enough that other factors (such as maximum sentences for crimes) are going to come into play, but it does strongly suggest that realistic prison time is going to be involve decades.
[1] This isn't entirely accurate, but maximum is a more accurate estimate than adding them all up. You actually group offenses by relatedness, and max within groups and sum the various groups, but for most practical purposes, there's only one group of offenses.