Legal Opinion
United States v. Tom
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 1, 2007No. 07-1074PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
The government appeals as unreasonably lenient a sentence of thirty-six months’ probation (including six months of community confinement) imposed on a white-collar criminal, Michael Tom. Tom, a securities professional, illegally made almost $800,000 in insider trading profits and then obstructed justice by lying under oath to the Securities and Exchange Commission, encouraging another witness to lie, and creating a false document.
The low end of the Sentencing Guidelines range for Tom, including a two-level increase for obstruction of justice, was thirty-seven months’…
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