United States Seventh Circuit

97-month wire fraud sentence is vacated and remanded where restitution award is excessive due to double-counting, and to decide whether under Illinois veil-piercing principles defendant is personally accountable for the receipts and obligations of his company.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/31/2003
• Decided 11/17/2003
• Published 11/17/2003

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Hal Goldsmith (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Fairview Heights, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Richard H. Parsons, Johanna M. Christiansen (argued), Office of the Federal Public Defender, Peoria, IL, for Defendant-Appellant.