United States v. Peter Alexander Makres, A/K/A Jerome K. Callahan

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

Six years ago defendant Peter Makres pleaded guilty to sixteen counts of knowingly transporting falsely made or forged checks, in violation of 18 U.S.C. section 2314. At his sentencing hearing, Judge Getzendanner sentenced him to two concurrent one-year terms in the work release program at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (the “MCC”) in Chicago. On the remaining fourteen counts, she sentenced him to concurrent terms of five years’ probation, with the condition that he undergo psychiatric therapy.

The sentence seems mild, considering the crimes and Makres’ twenty-two…