United States v. Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson was convicted of mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, sentenced within the guidelines range to 66 months’ imprisonment, and ordered to pay about $2.6 million in restitution. Although the number of victims exceeds 30, more than $1 million'of the $2.6 million total loss found by the district court was attributed to just three of them. Those victims and their individual losses are at the center of this appeal, in which Nelson argues that the district court significantly overstated the total loss by crediting unreliable evidence and failing to resolve discrepancies between the parties’…