U.S. v. Harper

Defendant was entitled to new sentencing hearing on her fraud conviction that stemmed from accusations that she accepted kickbacks of more than $500,000 from bus companies to which she steered transportation contracts worth $21 million. While Dist. Ct. imposed below-guidelines, 120-month term of incarceration and had articulated proper reasons for concluding that defendant’s fraud was serious crime, Dist. Ct. erred in failing to provide rationale for imposing instant sentence consecutive to unrelated sentence defendant had received from Louisiana Ct. Dist. Ct. also erred in failing to provide reasons for imposition of discretionary conditions of defendant’s supervised release and for imposing certain conditions that were not mentioned at sentencing hearing.