Legal Opinion
United States v. Abbas
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 26, 2009No. 07-3866PublishedCited by 154 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Omar Abbas challenges the application of U.S.S.G. § 2C1.1 (extortion under color of official right) to his sentence for impersonating an FBI agent and argues that he should be re-sentenced. While we agree that impersonation of a public official is not action “under color of official right” (and thus does not qualify for treatment under § 2C1.1), we find that the sentencing error was harmless and that Abbas’s sentence was reasonable. Accordingly, we affirm.
I. Background
Omar Abbas ran scams on several unsuspecting immigrants in the Chicago area, offering to make various…
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