Legal Opinion
United States v. Pratheepan Thavaraja
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 23, 2014No. Docket 12-4330-crPublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHIN, Circuit Judge:
Defendant-appellee Pratheepan Thava-raja, a Sri Lankan native, was the principal procurement officer for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (“LTTE”), a foreign terrorist organization. He was detained in Indonesia and extradited to the United States in 2007. In June 2009, he pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to bribe public officials. The district court (Dearie, J.) sentenced him principally to 108 months’ imprisonment, a substantial downward variation from the Guidelines range. The Government…
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