Some other white-collar sentencing news and notes

This post on the Eleventh Circuit’s affirmance of the 30-year (within-guideline) sentence of first-offender Chalana McFarland for mortgage fraud has generated lots of interesting comments about white-collar sentencing.   If folks want more grist for the mill in this arena, check out these news stories about some white-collar sentencing developments:

• From the AP here, “Texas Oilman Handed Year Prison Term”

• From the CanWest News Service here, “Conrad Black may face stiffer sentencing”

• From the AP here, “High-profile L.A. lawyer gets prison for fraud, other crimes”

• From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin here, Ex-charity worker gets 30-year term for fraud

There are lots of interesting facets to all these stories, and the Conrad Black sentencing will likely be making even more headlines as sentencing approaches.