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Friday federal sentencing lesson: do not trust a Quaker ... a U Penn Quaker, that is

By Douglas A. Berman

Because I graduated from two rival institutions, I may get too much schadenfreude from stories about University of Pennsylvania Quakers getting into serious federal sentencing trouble.  Still, I cannot help but wonder what Ben Franklin might say, in the wake of this recent story about the Penn student hacker and child-porn downloader, about this new story concerning the sentencing of Penn alum involved in identity fraud.  Here are the basics: University of Pennsylvania graduate Edward Anderton of Everett, Wash., admitted teaming with his jet-setting college girlfriend, Jocelyn Kirsch, to steal the identities of friends and neighbors in Philadelphia in 2006 and 2007. Together, they gleaned more than $116,000 in goods and services. They used the money for expensive salon visits, fancy dinners and lavish trips to places such as Paris and Hawaii...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 14, 2008 (boomark / email).