United States v. Susan Godding

The government appeals the sentence imposed upon Susan Godding by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, Peter C. Dorsey, Judge, of one day’s imprisonment and five years’ supervised release, with the special conditions that Godding spend six months' in home confinement and pay full restitution. Godding pleaded guilty to embezzling, over a five-year period, nearly $366,000 from her employer, the National Iron Bank, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 656. Upon considering the pre-sentence report Guidelines calculations, the district court departed seven offense levels —…