United States v. Tijani Saani

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge SENTELLE.

SENTELLE, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellant Tijani Saani was charged with under-reporting income on his tax returns. He pled guilty to five counts of filing a false tax return and was given an above-guidelines sentence of 110 months in prison. Saani appealed, arguing that the district court’s sentence was impermissibly influenced by his refusal to reveal -the source of his unreported income. In United States v. Saani, 650 F.3d 761 (D.C.Cir.2011), we vacated Saani’s sentence and remanded to the sentencing court so the court could…