Man’s Community Service Sentence For Fraud Vacated By 2nd Circuit Panel

Mealey's (August 20, 2019, 1:15 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 19 vacated a federal judge in New York’s ruling requiring a man who pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and bank fraud to perform more than 300 hours of community service per year over the course of his supervised release, holding that the sentence did not comply with a policy statement issued by the Sentencing Commission (United States v. Nikos Parkins, No. 18-1019, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24563)....