UNITED STATES, Appellee, v. Russell E. PHILLIPS, Appellant

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Russell E. Phillips appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his motion for a reduction in sentence filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b). For reversal Phillips argues that the district court erred by (1) imposing consecutive sentences upon him for separate securities fraud offenses which arose from a single scheme; (2) declining to reduce his sentence after learning that Phillips’ codefendants had received significantly shorter sentences than did Phillips; (3) reimposing the same sentence on him after this court reversed two of the six…