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U.S. v. CRUZADO-LAUREANO

No. 05-1822.

440 F.3d 44 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Juan Manuel CRUZADO-LAUREANO, a/k/a Manny, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 14, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Zeno for appellant.

Thomas F. Klumper, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom H.S. Garcia, United States Attorney, and Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief, for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.

In 2002, a jury convicted Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano, the former mayor of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, on a broad slate of corruption-related charges. Through a variety of schemes, Cruzado extorted funds from government contractors and embezzled funds that belonged in the city coffers. Although we sustained his convictions in an earlier appeal, we vacated his sentence because it was imposed under the wrong version of the United States Sentencing...

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