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An alleged member of the Black Axe organisation arrested in SA for his suspected involvement in "romance scams" in the US has been granted bail.

The crypto trader has sought help from the online community and has even offered a $100,000 reward for those who can help him recover the money.

Are. but it is not as if there is one set of guidelines that a federal sentencing guidelines and others are the probation guidelines. the probation office is giving advice to the judge. it varies case by case but it is not the same. >> sorry. i thought you were done. >> let me ask but a specific case. i listed these seven cases in which you had discretion and you did not follow the prosecutor's recommendation. let's talk about one of them. we've talked about them as a group. let's talk about the united states versus hawkins. that's one you probably remember. from 2013 interesting defendant was...

But it's not as if there's one set of guidelines that are federal sentencing guidelines and then there's the probation guidelines. the probation office is giving advice to the judge, it varies case by case. >> senator -- oh. >> it's not the same. >> sorry. i thought you were done. >> that's all right. let me ask you about a specific case. let's talk about -- i listened to these seven cases in which you had discretion, and you did not follow the prosecutor's recommendation or the sentencing guidelines but let's just talk about one of them because we've talked about some of them as a group. let'...

Statutes, congress has given the judges not only the discretion to make the decision, but required judges to do so on an individualized basis. taking into account, not only the guidelines but also various factors including the age of the defendant, the circumstances of the defendant, the terrible nature of the crime, the harm to the victims, all of these factors are taken into account, and the probation office assists the court in determining what sentence is sufficient but not greater than necessary. and i appreciate, senator, that you have lacked at these from the standpoint of statistics. t...