Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael J. Tomasino
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 15, 2000No. 99-2796PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The government appeals from the district court’s refusal (reported at 57 F.Supp.2d 565 (N.D.Ill.1999)) to enhance the defendant’s mail fraud sentence under U.S.S.G. § 2Fl.l(b)(7)(B), which provides for a 4-level increase in sentence if the fraud “affected a financial institution and the defendant derived more than $1,000,-000 in gross receipts from the offense.” The appeal confronts us with the question, left open in United States v. Lauer, 148 F.3d 766, 768-70 (7th Cir.1998), of the guideline’s validity.
The guideline was promulgated in response to section 2507(a) of the…
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