United States v. Bogdanov, No. 16-4106 (7th Cir. 2017)
Annotate this CaseBogdanov pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to transport stolen goods in interstate commerce, 18 U.S.C. 2314, and one count of substantive violation of the same law, stemming from his family’s multi‐million dollar shoplifting scheme. The district court sentenced him to 48 months’ imprisonment and entered a preliminary order of forfeiture in the amount of $2.8 million. The Seventh Circuit affirmed, rejecting challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the forfeiture order and the total loss amount that supported his advisory sentencing guidelines range. The government demonstrated through direct evidence and Bogdanov’s own admissions that Bogdanov was in the business of stealing and reselling the same types of consumer retail goods that he sold to an informant. Bogdanov marshaled no evidence showing that any of the alleged goods in question were obtained legitimately: he produced neither receipts nor any other evidence of a legal source for the goods. The fact that the informant reported that Bogdanov had told him that the goods were not stolen was not evidence that Bogdanov had a legitimate source for the goods. The district court was within its discretion to disregard that statement when assessing the evidence.
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