Legal Opinion
United States v. Reyes-Rivera
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 29, 2016No. 14-1712PPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Dilean Reyes-Rivera was the mastermind of a Ponzi scheme, operated largely in Puerto Rico, which defrauded over 230 vulnerable people out of approximately $22 million. In 2012, he pled guilty to bank fraud and to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and in 2013 he was sentenced to concurrent terms of 60 months of imprisonment on the wire fraud conspiracy count and 242 months on the bank fraud count. He appeals, bringing a number of challenges to his 242-month sentence, basically saying the sentence is too high because his was only a “run-of-the-mill” Ponzi scheme. Finding no…
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