United States First Circuit

Four-level upward adjustment for being an organizer of criminal scheme is appropriate under USSG 3B1.1(a) where defendant recruited only other member in local area for fraudulent check cashing scheme and took a greater share of the proceeds.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2000
• Published 12/29/2000

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, LYNCH, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Barry S. Pollack, with whom Dechert Price & Rhoads was on brief, for defendant-appellant., Donald C. Lockhart, Assistant U.S. Attorney, with whom Margaret E. Curran, U.S. Attorney, and Terrence P. Donnelly, Assistant U.S. Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.