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Criminal Law: Fraudulent Registration of Vehicles-Calculation of Actual Loss-Restitution

Defendant was convicted of fraudulently registering vehicles of Missouri residents in Illinois to avoid Missouri state taxes. At sentencing, the district court calculated an actual loss amount and ordered defendant to make restitution in that amount. On appeal, defendant challenged ...

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Criminal Law: Receiving Stolen Property-Sufficiency of Evidence-Restitution

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for receiving stolen property, evidence that the defendant purchased items on the victim’s charge account that were not clearly authorized by the parties’ contract, even after the victim stated this, and after the defendant ...

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Criminal Law: Intentional Damage to Protected Computer-Armed Career Criminal-Restitution

After conducting a series of malicious computer attacks, defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. On appeal, defendant challenged his classification as ...

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Criminal Law: Passing Counterfeit Securities-Restitution-Intended-Loss Calculation

Defendant pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit securities. The district court sentenced defendant to 120 months of incarceration and ordered him to pay $55,000 in restitution. On appeal, defendant argued that the intended-loss calculation was too high and that the restitution ...

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Criminal Law: Restitution-Plea Deal

  Where defendant sought to strike his agreed restitution obligation but keep the rest of his plea deal intact, the defendant’s guilty plea waived the claim of error, and the defendant’s claim that restitution contradicted the oral sentence was refuted ...

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Criminal Law: Financial Exploitation of Disabled Person-Concurrent Sentences-Restitution

Defendant was convicted of financial exploitation of a disabled person and Medicaid fraud after she deposited a client’s funds into her operating account rather than a trust account and purchased personal items. On appeal, defendant argued that the trial court ...

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Criminal Law: Wire Fraud-Restitution-Joint and Several Liability

Defendants participated in a wire-fraud scheme to obtain money from elderly victims, claiming relatives in the Dominican Republic needed wired funds. At sentencing, the district court found that defendants were jointly and severally liable for the total amount obtained by ...

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