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When the FBI Raids Your Restaurant: What's Actually Happening The FBI showed up at your restaurant at 6 AM with a search warrant. Their seizing your computers, financial records, and asking you're employees questions.…

Criminal History Category Calculation: What Your Prior Convictions Mean for Your Federal Sentence Your criminal history category could matter more then the actual crime you committed. Look, here's the deal-when you recieved your Pre-Sentence…

Acceptance of Responsibility Reduction: What It Means and How Not to Lose It Your attorney mentioned "acceptance of responsibility" like you should know what it means. You don't. And that gap in understanding could…

Your facing a federal sentencing enhancement that could add years to you're sentence, and the clock is ticking. You just recieved your presentence report and it includes a "vulnerable victim enhancement" under Section 3A1.1.…

When Your Past Actions Add Years to Your Federal Sentence You just recieved your Pre-Sentence Report and saw the words "obstruction of justice enhancement" in black and white. Your attorney said its "only" 2…

Your Sentence Just Got Four Years Longer - And You Have 14 Days to Fix It The presentence report just labeled you a "leader" in a conspiracy you barely understood. That designation-just two words…

When Your Pre-Sentence Report Becomes Your Worst Nightmare The number on page 12 of your Pre-Sentence Report isn't just wrong - its going to cost you a decade of your life if you don't…

The sophisticated means enhancement just added 14 months to your federal prison sentance. You didn't use offshore accounts. You didn't create a complex web of shell companies. You formed one LLC and used Excel…

Multiple Counts Don't Mean Multiple Sentences-But Your Prosecutor Wants You to Think They Do You just opened your federal indictment and saw "Count 1... Count 2... Count 3... Count 4... Count 5..." Your chest…

When the Setup Becomes Your Case That business partner who wouldn't take no for an answer? He was wearing a wire. That buyer who kept raising the price untill you finally agreed? FBI. And…