SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In a postscript to a sordid tale of greed and corruption, defendant-appellant Brian J. Sarault, the former Mayor of Rhode Island's fourth largest city, assails the district court's imposition of a sentence exceeding the guideline sentencing range (GSR). Finding, as we do, that the upward departure was fully justified, we affirm the judgment below.
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On November 14, 1991, the former mayor of Pawtucket...
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