United States Second Circuit

An upward enhancement for use of "sophisticated means," U.S.S.G. section 2F1.1(b)(5)(C), was properly imposed, but the cumulative effect of all the enhancements permits the district court to consider a downward departure on remand.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/01/2003
• Published 10/01/2003

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, WINTER, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Nathaniel Z. Marmur, New York, N.Y. (Stillman & Friedman, P.C., New York, N.Y., David I. Schoen, Montgomery, Ala., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Lauersen., Vida M. Alvy, Great Neck, N.Y. (Gail Jacobs, Great Neck, N.Y., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Jackson., James G. Cavoli, Asst. U.S. Atty., New York, N.Y. (James B. Comey, U.S. Atty., Gary Stein, Lisa Horwitz, Adam Siegel, Asst. U.S. Attys., New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Appellee.