United States v. Thomas Mittelsteadt

In 1983 the appellant pleaded guilty in a federal district court in Wisconsin to several counts of violating federal banking and fraud laws and was sentenced to prison for four years; he is currently in a federal prison in Minnesota. The presentence report stated that the violations had resulted in a loss of $3.3 million to the banks that were defrauded. The appellant did not appeal from his conviction and sentence or from the denial of a motion to reduce sentence that he made later. But in 1985 he moved the district court to make a specific finding on the amount of loss caused by the fraud…