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Notable upward variance for white-collar offender

By Douglas A. Berman

This local federal sentencing story from Massachusetts, which is headlined "Judge throws the book at Cape church swindler," highlights that judges are sometimes eager to bring down the sentencing hammer on certain white-collar criminals: A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Harwich Port man to 15 years in prison for stealing $14 million from the Natick company where he worked and more than $600,000 from the Cape Cod church where he volunteered.  Jeffrey Windle, 42, entered the courtroom wearing brown and tan prison clothes. During the sentencing he looked down. "While this is not literally a career offender, it has some marks of it," said U.S. District Court Judge George O'Toole in explaining his decision to sentence Windle to one year more in prison than prosecutors requested and 2?½ years more than the maximum called for under sentencing guidelines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 24, 2009 (boomark / email).