The Yale Law Journal

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White-Collar Defendants and White-Collar Crimes

Andrew Weissmann & Joshua A. Block

At the margins, the current Federal Sentencing Guidelines for fraud and other white-collar offenses are too severe. Even when a corporate leader has engaged in massive fraud affecting thousands of people, such as what occurred at Enron, sentences of twenty or more years hardly seem necessary to sati…