GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS v. ASTARTE DAVIS, Appellant; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. RICE, ASTARTE Astarte Davis, Appellant

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• holding that restitution under the VWPA was more akin to compensation for actual loss than a criminal penalty that may not bear interest
• concluding that an award of restitution pursuant to VWPA cannot include litigation costs to recover balance of funds in bank accounts because such expenses are too far removed from the underlying criminal conduct
• allowing prejudgement interest where the embezzled cash came from “the estate of James Merrills Rice”
• allowing prejudgement interest where the embezzled cash came from \the estate of James Merrills Rice\
• allowing prejudgment interest on restitution order \to effect full compensation\ for the victim's actual loss
• seemingly endorsing, in a single paragraph, both but for and direct causation

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