United States v. Ballentine

ORDER

For his role as a lawyer assisting in two separate mortgage-fraud schemes, a jury found Warren Ballentine guilty of mail *556fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, wire fraud, id. § 1343, two counts of financial institution fraud, id. § 1344, and two counts of making false statements to financial institutions, id. § 1014. The district court then sentenced him on all counts below the guidelines range to concurrent one-day terms of imprisonment with time served and concurrent three-year terms of supervised release. The court also ordered restitution of $140,940 and a $600 assessment. Ballentine filed a…