'Deceit On Deceit': 7th Circ. OKs Atty's Asset-Hiding Sentence

By Clara Geoghegan

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Chicago-area lawyer's three-year sentence for hiding over $350,000 in her brother's bankruptcy, finding two sentence enhancements were properly applied since she "layered deceit upon deceit" to try to conceal assets and cover her tracks.

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