Government enforcement partner Christopher Conniff, government enforcement counsel Steven Goldschmidt and litigation associate Helen Gugel recently authored an article in the Oct. 2013 issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, published by the University of California Press. In the article, titled "Sentencing Guidelines for Insider Trading: Recent Amendments Create Greater Disparity," the authors provide an overview of the amended insider trading guidelines and discuss the impact that these changes will have on sentencing. The authors also review the application of these amended guidelines in recent, prominent white-collar cases.
Sentencing Guidelines For Insider Trading: Recent Amendments Create Greater Disparity
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When it passed the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984,
Congress created the United States Sentencing Commission
and envisioned that it would issue sentencing guidelines
designed to ‘‘avoid[] unwarranted sentencing
disparities.’
