Legal Opinion
United States v. McDonough
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 30, 2017No. Cr. No. 09-10166-MLWPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOLF, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
I. SUMMARY
In 2011, the court sentenced defendant Richard McDonough, a lobbyist, to seven years in prison for orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently use the official power of the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Salvatore DiMasi to extort payments from a company seeking state contracts for computer software worth more than $17,000,000. McDonough began serving his sentence later that year.
McDonough told the Probation Officer preparing his Presentence Report (“PSR”) that he had not used any illegal drugs since the 1990s,…
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- United States v. Kelvin Neal JacksonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1995
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