United States v. Danielle Pauline Ravitch

Defendant-appellant Danielle Pauline Raviteh appeals the sentence imposed upon her by the district court after she pled guilty to nine counts of fraud and misuse of social security numbers. In sentencing Ravitch, the district court determined that an upward departure was warranted; it is this upward departure that Ravitch now contests. Finding no plain error in either the decision to depart upward or in the extent of the upward departure, we affirm the judgment of conviction and sentence of the district court.

I. FACTUAL & PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

From July to December 1994, defendant-appellant…