A pattern of white-collar leniency?

Yesterday I questioned in this post whether former Providence Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci and his associates may have received special consideration from the 1st Circuit in its remand decision.  And a piece in the New Haven Advocate entitled Incomplete Sentences (available here), which discusses recent sentencings by Connecticut District Judge Peter Dorsey, has me thinking more broadly about whether we might expect white-collar offenders to be the biggest beneficiaries of Booker and the new discretion it affords federal sentencing judges.

The New Haven Advocate piece discusses Judge Dorsey’s sentencing of former Connecticut Governor John Rowland and also the below guideline sentence he gave to Sandra Martin, who admitted to stealing nearly $1 million from Fairfield County banks by moving checks among multiple accounts.

UPDATE: Peter Henning over at White Collar Crime Prof Blog has chimed in on this topic with a lot of great thoughts here.

FURTHER UPDATE: Ellen Pogdor at White Collar Crim Prof Blog has enriched this discussion with some additional comments here.