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		nimbius on Nov 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 year... holy cats. the only thing that might send you away longer is tax fraud and thats only because the us tax code was never demilitarized after we crushed the mafia. 18 months was never going to happen.

lalopalota on Nov 18, 2022 | [–]

average sentence length for drug related mandatory minimums is 139 months. (2021)

pdf - https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...

from on Nov 19, 2022 | [–]

Max sentence for tax evasion is 5 years. You can have multiple counts but almost no one is sentenced consecutively.

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