Opinion: Proposed amendments to federal sentencing guidelines make it imperative that white collar defendants and their ...

I am Alan D. Viard, a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. I write to comment on the commission’s proposed inflationary adjustment to the loss tables ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a consultant on white-collar crime and former convicted felon. Most all federal inmates will one day leave prison and most ...

The advisory federal sentencing guidelines play an important role in the sentencing of federal offenders (they do not apply to state offenders). The US Sentencing Commission has proposed that the ...

On November 1, 2025, the most recent amendments to the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual went into effect. Among other changes, the amendments streamline the sentencing process from three steps to two ...

Criminal defense attorney Fred Hafetz and Sentencingstats.com, Inc. co-founder Mark Allenbaugh provide an analysis based on U.S. Sentencing Commission data of the difference in sentences between ...

"This article discusses only downward departures as they existed until Nov. 1, 2025. After Nov. 1, 2025, virtually all departures have been eliminated by the Sentencing Commission amendments The ...