Legal Opinion
United States v. Brian J. Sarault
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 15, 1992No. 92-1180PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In a postscript to a sordid tale of greed and corruption, defendant-appellant Brian J. Sarault, the former Mayor of Rhode Island’s fourth largest city, assails the district court’s imposition of a sentence exceeding the guideline sentencing range (GSR). Finding, as we do, that the upward departure was fully justified, we affirm the judgment below.
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Background
On November 14, 1991, the former may- or of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty to a criminal information which charged him with heading an enterprise engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of…
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