United States v. Lilly

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

Seeking to avoid restitution of over $5,000,-000 and five years probation following his anticipated release from prison, William W. Lilly (“Lilly”) launches an imaginative assault on his sentence. That assault must fail.

I. Procedural History

Lilly was indicted and tried on thirty counts of bank fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1344. The first twenty-nine counts were based upon Lilly's submission of twenty-nine sets of fraudulent documentation — mortgages, sales agreements, and closing documents — to a bank in order to obtain $7,000,000 in financing for the…