Thanks to Booker, they got below guideline sentences 29% of the time.
FORBES: Federal Judges Go Easy On Tax Cheats, Pornographers And Prostitutes
However, insider trading cases have resulted in below guideline sentences, even if a person went to trial and was found guilty.
FORBES: What Judge Rakoff Will Consider Upon Sentencing Rajat Gupta
In the first nine months of fiscal 2010, federal judges cited Booker to sentence 13.4% of all federal convicts to below guideline terms.
As I noted here last week, federal judges have a tendency to go easy on tax cheats, granting them below guideline sentences far more often than most other categories of offenders.
FORBES: Judge Cuts UBS Tax Cheat A Break
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