United States v. Dennis Bright

How courts have described this case

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• declaring “it is clear from the plain language of the statute that the district court was required in the first instance to set the amount of Bright’s restitution obligation based on his victims’ collective losses and without regard to forfeited funds”
• “funds the victims have not received cannot reduce or offset the amount of losses the defendant is required to repay.”
• “[T]he MVRA provisions . . . make clear that funds the victims have not received cannot reduce or offset the amount of losses the defendant is required to repay.” (emphasis omitted)
• “[W]hatever offsets might be due when a defendant’s funds have been forfeited and paid to the victims .. the MVRA provisions [ ] make clear that funds the victims have not received cannot reduce or offset-the amount of losses the defendant. is required to repay.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).