U.S. v. Bennett, No. 95-1051 (1st Cir.) (60 F.3d 902) (July 31, 1995) (Judge Conrad K. Cyr)
Case held that settlement of defendant's civil suit with financial institution did not warrant a downward departure.
This is the second appeal by the Government of a sentence imposed by Judge Harrington, where he tried to reduce a defendant's sentence by applying some creative thinking to the concept of "loss" …
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