The thing here is, you get up to around 20 years just with a single wire fraud count, because the amounts involved here are so high. We're at $143MM in losses on the three wire fraud charges together (2B1.1 states they're to be summed up), which gets you a 26(!)-level enhancement from the base level of 7. That's 12 years (at the bottom of the range), and every other enhancement you take after level 33 is another ~4 years; there are 3-4 enhancements (like "sophisticated means") that seem likely to apply.
On the flip side, given the huge sums involved, it's not easy to make the numbers make sense served consecutively.
Yes there's lots of very high and very low guesses as to what she might get going around. I'm just commenting here specifically on this twitter guy's opinion.
Yikes. Plus, my understanding is that > 10 means no minimum security camp and > 20 means no low security, so she would start off in medium security. - assuming it works the same way with woman as with men)
>Yikes. Plus, my understanding is that > 10 means no minimum security camp and > 20 means no low security, so she would start off in medium security. - assuming it works the same way with woman as with men)
I'm curious where you got that understanding. Would you mind sharing?
Especially since that could put the khibosh on my retirement plans (commit a serious, but non-violent federal crime and receive a lengthy -- hopefully the rest of my life -- sentence at a minimum security "Club Fed"[0] facility).
Free housing, food, health care and clothes with no tax liability for the rest of my life? It makes me want to to massively defraud some congress-critters once I turn 70 or so.
Assuming I could be assured of conviction, I'd even hold on to the stolen money so it could be returned to the victims.
Yes, I'm being somewhat facetious. But decent assisted living facilities run from USD6-12k/month and once I've spent all my money, it's off to a Medicaid facility that isn't much better than minimum security prisons anyway.
This way, I can give my money to those I care about and not have to worry about spending down my life savings to ~USD2,000 in order to qualify for crappy accommodations at a facility that accepts Medicaid patients.
A better alternative to a retirement home is to retire to a cruise ship. It’s actually a lot more affordable than many retirement homes and far more luxurious, entertaining, and with way better food. You also get the benefit of being able to take day trips in various ports of call and of course you get full housekeeping services like any other cruise passenger.
Is that how it works? I’d hope you’re wrong, but have no reason to think so, because I’d like to believe that the kind of prison you’re sent to is related to how much of a risk you are to others. I’m not remotely an Elizabeth Holmes fan, but she isn’t going to be beating people up in the prison yard.
> I’d hope you’re wrong, but have no reason to think so, because I’d like to believe that the kind of prison you’re sent to is related to how much of a risk you are to others.
I think in theory escape risk is a part of it, too, and people with extremely long sentences are presumed to have rather more motivation to escape.
Do you mean 'how crudely and unintelligently you harm others'? It sounds like you're setting up a framework where you get sent to the mean prison if you're physically bullying people, and the more intelligently you deliver your harm the better treatment you get, perhaps up to a point where if you're smart enough you can harm people on an enormous scale and get, I don't know, praise for it instead of prison.
Elizabeth seems the sort of person most capable of executing a plan whereby she pulls off a prison break through enlisting the aid of a bunch of other prisoners who're promised freedom themselves, but in her plan are actually there as decoys to be killed. It seems analogous to stuff she's already happily done. She is potentially a risk even to other prisoners if she carries on as she has done. I don't buy that she's not a risk to others.
On the flip side, given the huge sums involved, it's not easy to make the numbers make sense served consecutively.
Here's an article about grouping:
https://www.josephabramslaw.com/understanding-grouping-rules...