United States v. Jeremiah Dorai Jacob

This appeal serves as a useful reminder about the dangers of allowing criminal defendants to travel internationally. Jeremiah Jacob was convicted more than a year ago of selling an unregistered security, see 15 U.S.C. § 77e(a), and was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment and $241,630.95 in restitution. When he asked for permission to travel to Australia two weeks after sentencing, he was persuasive: He had been traveling to Australia for work while on bond before sentencing and yet he had returned to be sentenced, and he pledged to earn additional money to pay restitution. The district court…