United States Second Circuit

Sentence of paying restitution both to defendant's victims and to third-party providers of compensation for losses arising from his fraudulent activities is vacated where the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act caps a defendant's restitution liability at the amount of his victims' actual losses, net of any property the defendant returned to the victims, and because providers of compensation do not qualify as "victims" so as to expand the defendant's liability under the Act, the district court erred in ordering defendant to pay more than the amount of his victims' net losses.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2015
• Published 07/13/2015

Judges

• Lynch

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel