Legal Opinion
United States v. Walter Kevin Scott
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 25, 2005No. 04-1053PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Kevin Scott was convicted of bank fraud, of fraudulently using another person’s Social Security number, and of transacting in money obtained through crime (“money laundering” in the broad, which is also the statutory, sense). He was sentenced to 120 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution to the victims of his crimes. He appeals on a number of grounds, four of which, all relating to the sentence, have sufficient substance to warrant discussion. The first is that he received an illegal sentence because the judge thought the sentencing…
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