United States v. William N. Bogas

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the government from a sentence imposed on a former municipal official who pleaded guilty to charges of (a) not reporting the release of ignitable hazardous wastes into the environment and (b) making a false statement about the release. As calculated by the district court under the United States Sentencing Commission’s Guidelines Manual (Nov. 1989), the offense level for the defendant’s crimes was not high enough to require imprisonment; the defendant was sentenced instead to a combination of community service, probation, and home detention.…