6th Circuit Says Fraud Defendant’s 6-Month Probation Sentence Not Too Long

Mealey's (June 25, 2020, 12:30 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 22 affirmed a federal judge in Michigan’s resentencing of a woman who was found guilty of engaging in a scheme to submit fraudulent unemployment insurance claims, holding that her sentencing of six months’ probation was not  “unreasonably long” because it was less severe than the low end of the proposed sentencing guidelines range (United States v. Nakita Washington, No. 20-1069, 6th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 19469)....