United States v. Jason Smith

STRAS, Circuit Judge.

After Jason Smith pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit securities, see 18 U.S.C. § 513 (a), the district court 1 sentenced him to 120 months in prison and ordered him to pay almost $55,000 in restitution. Smith claims that the court's intended-loss calculation under the Sentencing Guidelines was too high, see U.S.S.G. § 2B1.1(b), and that the restitution amount should have been lower, see 18 U.S.C. §§ 3663A, 3664. Because neither determination was clearly erroneous, we affirm.

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