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"Fake lawyer Kieffer sentenced to 51 months"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this Denver Post article providing the sentencing news in a fraud case involving a defendant well known to lots of folks in the federal sentencing community.  Here are the details: Howard O. Kieffer, an imposter attorney who bilked federal defendants across the country out of thousands of dollars, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison Friday and ordered to pay $152,750 in restitution. Kieffer, 54, did not make a statement during the 90-minute sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, N.D., said Assistant U.S. Attorney David Hagler.  He could have faced up to 25 years in prison, but given his criminal history, federal sentencing guidelines placed his conduct in a range of 51 to 63 months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 15, 2009 (boomark / email).