Legal Opinion
United States v. Todd Dyer
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 8, 2000No. 99-3707PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The defendant was convicted of mail fraud and related federal crimes arising from his operation óf a Ponzi scheme between 1991 and 1996, and Was sentenced to 70 months in prison. The scheme involved the sale of securities in Dyer’s sham or nonexistent corporations and imposed losses on its mostly elderly yictims of more than $2 million. The appeal challenges the district judge’s refusal to give Dyér a downward departure on the basis of section 5K2.13 of the federal sentencing guidelines, which provides that “a sentence below the applicable guideline range may be warranted…
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