United States v. Jokhoo, No. 14-3023 (8th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseDefendant, a debt collector, was convicted of eleven counts of bank fraud, nine counts of mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, ten counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of impersonating a federal officer or employee. The court concluded that the district court did not err by finding that the total loss amount was $711,965.82; the district court did not clearly err in calculating the intended loss; the district court did not err in applying the enhancement for violation of an administrative order under U.S.S.G. 2B1.1cmt. n. 8; and the district court did not err in applying the vulnerable victim enhancement. Finally, the court concluded that defendant's sentence is substantively reasonable and the district court did not abuse its discretion in imposing a 175 month sentence. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Murphy, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges] Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court did not err in calculating the amount of loss in defendant's fraud scheme; the district court did not err in imposing an enhancement under Guidelines Sec.2B1.1 cmt.n.8(C) for committing a fraud in contraventions of a prior administrative order; nor did the court err in imposing a vulnerable victim enhancement; sentence was substantively reasonable.
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