U.S. v. Haywood

Dist. Ct. did not err in sentencing defendant to 151-month term of incarceration on wire fraud charge stemming from scheme to generate mortgage loan applications containing false representations, even though defendant argued that $1,447,270 loss figure to which he had stipulated as part of plea agreement should have been reduced by $486,000 because information about fraud associated with that amount was obtained through plea proffer sessions. Record did not support $486,000 figure, and that true figure of $423,750 was too small to change applicable sentencing range. Moreover, Ct. rejected defendant’s alternative argument that Dist. Ct. could not have viewed him as organizer or leader of scheme, after Ct. noted defendant’s admission to submitting 65 fraudulent mortgage loan applications, as well as defendant’s recruitment efforts and advice to others about submitting false documents.