2024 United States Sentencing Guideline Amendments: A Front Row Seat to the Kabuki Theatre
On November 1, several amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines took effect. Some of these changes are significant, offering advantages to the defense, while others are less beneficial. However, ultimately, this process amounts to nothing more than “Kabuki Theatre,” meaning the tortured guideline applications become merely performative, because 18 U.S.C. § 3553, enables discerning…
The Cold Hard Truth About White Collar Crime: With Kelly Richmond Pope
This week, helping us get Set For Sentencing is Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope. She’s a fraud expert, a filmmaker, and an accounting professor at DePaul University in Chicago. Her latest book, “Fool Me Once: Scams Stories and secrets from the Trillion Dollar Fraud Industry,” is burning up the charts nationally. Why do people commit fraud? …