United States v. Larry Joseph Leblanc

BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a sentence imposed under the Sentencing Guidelines, and the issues are peculiarly complicated. Because the criminal charges at issue were resolved by a guilty plea, we draw the facts of the case primarily from the presentence report, the sentencing transcript and various other materials before the district court. See United States v. Gill, 99 F.3d 484, 485 (1st Cir.1996).

In March 1993, a Canadian company called City Sales, Inc. (“City Sales”) began purchasing a chlorofluorocarbon called CFC-12, popularly known as freon, from a Canadian supplier and…