> And this also means statutory maximum sentences come into effect, and I personally don't know how that interacts when you've got multiple charges. The judge

> And this also means statutory maximum sentences come into effect, and I personally don't know how that interacts when you've got multiple charges. The judge can order consecutive sentences for multiple charges, making the effective statutory maximum in such cases very long indeed. Sholam Weiss [1] was an extreme example of this, racking up 845 years for a $450M fraud in the 90s. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholam_Weiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholam_Weiss