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"Federal Judges Go Easy On Tax Cheats, Pornographers And Prostitutes"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the provocative heading give to this post at a Forbes blog called "Taxing Matters" and authored by Janet Novack.  Here is an excerpt of the analysis of the latest US Sentencing Commission data (previously discussed here) that follows under this heading: The latest numbers from the U.S. Sentencing Commission provide new evidence that at least some Federal judges don?t like handing out stiff jail sentences to tax cheats. Since the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Booker in 2005 that the Commission?s tough-on-white-collar-crimes sentencing guidelines weren?t binding, the Commission has tracked the frequency with which judges hand out lighter penalties than the guidelines call for. In the first nine months of fiscal 2010, federal judges cited Booker to sentence 13...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 08, 2010 (boomark / email).