United States v. Nick S. Boscarino

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• holding that \a sentencing difference is not a forbidden 'disparity' if it is justified by legitimate considerations\
• holding that “a sentencing difference is not a forbidden ‘disparity’ if it is justified by legitimate considerations, such as rewards for cooperation”
• holding that “a sentencing difference is not a forbidden ‘disparity’ if it is justified by legitimate considerations, such as rewards for cooperation”
• concluding that the difference between the codefend- ants’ sentences did not amount to an unwarranted disparity, because it was “justified by legitimate considerations, such as rewards for cooperation”
• stating that honest services fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1346 “does not create a separate crime,\ and is a \definitional clause” describing a type of mail fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1341
• observing that “§ 3553(a)(6) disallows ‘unwarranted sentence disparities’ … , not all sentence differences.”

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