Legal Opinion
United States v. Fuchs
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 17, 2011No. 09-1611PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Mitchel Fuchs brokered subprime mortgages by enticing lenders with falsified loan applications and phony documentation. He was convicted after a jury trial of mail and wire fraud. See 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343. After applying a number of sentencing guidelines adjustments, including a two-level increase for abuse of a position of trust, see U.S.S.G. § 3B1.3, the district court calculated Fuchs’s imprisonment range at 100 to 125 months. The court went above that range and imposed a total of 144 months’ imprisonment. We conclude that the court erred in applying the…
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