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"Fraudster appeals whopping 845 year sentence"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP piece.  Here are the basics: Financial fraudsters have racked up huge prison sentences before, but few if any white collar sentences top the eye-popping 845 years that New York businessman Sholam Weiss received in February 2000. Weiss on Wednesday is asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to review the sentence and order a lower court to give him a full re-sentencing. He claims that the federal government never followed through on its promise to grant him the hearing when he was extradited from Austria. Prosecutors counter that they never made that promise when they negotiated his return. They say the judge gave him the whopping sentence to ensure the 55-year-old would stay behind bars the rest of his life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 24, 2010 (boomark / email).