United States v. White, No. 17-1131 (7th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseWhite and others bought merchandise with fake checks and then returned it for cash. Over four years, the group targeted 32 stores and inflicted actual losses of approximately $627,000. In his plea agreement, White admitted to a key paragraph: Beginning no later than in or around the fall of 2009 and continuing until at least in or around the summer of 2013, … VANCE WHITE …, together with … (the “co‐schemers”), knowingly devised, ... and participated in a scheme to defraud and to obtain money by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises." In reality, White was in prison for most of that time. He entered state custody in September 2009 and was released in August 2011. He went back into custody in August 2012, leaving him able to pursue the fraud for only one year. The court imposed a sentence of 35 months for wire fraud, plus a mandatory, consecutive 24 months for identity theft, all to run concurrently with sentences from two different Illinois cases. White is scheduled for release in August 2018. The Seventh Circuit vacated his sentence. The district court calculated White’s Guidelines range based on the loss caused by the entire scheme over four years. No evidence in the record provides sufficient support to hold White responsible for the entire duration.
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