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Guideline, but in a case like holmes you may have an unusual case where shes going to be looking at such serious time it starts to look closer to the statutory max. here is what i mean, if i were just doing a ballpark i would say probably 10 to 15 years, but the challenge for holmes is that when you are convicted of defrauding people with a loss amount like this, 140 plus million dollars, then the sentencing guidelines send your sentencing range into the stratosphere. just to give an example she...

And what are you -- and for the first time we are hearing a value number, $1.7 million is what he is accused overnot paying. >> that is right. in new york state, there is no bank fraud charge. so grand larceny is what they use. and for better or for worse, it is a much lower penalty than a federal bank fraud charge would have. i think that what happened here is that the manhattan d.a.s office took their best shot to get allen weisselberg to cooperate, and i expect that everything they have again...

Charged with enormous environmental vjiolationses. then had volkswagen. these are high level examples. it gives you a sense of scale if were talking about fringe benefits thats on the lower end of cale. >> what does that make you think about what could be in the indictment >> heres a couple of things ill be looking for. trump organization despite all the cover of being this glamorous organization is really a small family held corporation. ill be looking for two big things. first does the indictm...

Hearing from matt miller in terms of the big picture, and i ask you this because you were heavily involved in first impeachment of the former president donald trump, and this is one more legal challenge that the president through his organization and the empire is going to face. i want you to taukt that. the significance of what this means today for the trump organization for the former president. >> it is a interesting question, ayman, and somebody like allen weisselberg and an entity like the ...

>> the sentencing guidelines probation is 6-month, the war was lost for the prosecution in terms of any harsh sentence, when probation told them the sentencing guidelines, the loss amount was nothing, that is a huge factors that drives white-collar cases and once you get to 0 to 6 and the guidelines anything goes. >> if i am one of the parents awaiting sentencing or if i am lori laughlin who pled not guilty, mia a little nervous after seeing this? >> i dont know that you are more nervous, you ge...

Your kids were involved in it and drag it into this corruption. you are all looking for distinctions between the defendants and the baseline might be 14 days. >> what does that mean for lori laughlin? stuff felicity have and get 14 days she is facing up to 40 years. is there any chance she faces anything close to that? >> it will be driven by the guidelines in the ballpark for that. it could drive some of these individuals to go to trial, theres not that much risk going to try with the loss amou...

Though he is under a gag order and the traug post where he said he was framed while he was under a gag order. so a lot to come this week. but i think that the thing that most people are going to be watching is whether or not paul manafort spends up to 14 years in prison. >> barbara mcquade, you knew a couple of judges or two or three. what do you think will happen this coming week as natasha is underlining so well for us what well see possibly with paul manafort? >> well, he faces up to ten year...

Government in the sentencing guidelines can do little to protect. maybe thats what hes been doing. but in terms of the sentence, youre absolutely right. welcome to federal sentencing in the united states. if you create a loss amount in the magnitude that manafort did in the range of $16 million, talking of millions of dollars, you get very quickly into decades and decades behind bars in federal prison. so, from the outset, manaforts case was different than some of the other characters who merely...

Guilty of all 18 counts, i guess he was spent close to 400 years behind bars. an unrealistic bill but that is. he would be staring at prison for the rest of his life. >> if there is certainly the option for the judge. in all white-collar cases, the sentencing guidelines are driven by the loss amount. the millions of dollars that were in play. back in somewhat hyperinflated the exposure when you start talking about guidelines of 30 years-like. i dont think it will be a serious conviction peered b...