Federal prosecutors sought a prison sentence of 212 months — nearly 18 years — while Sanberg’s lead attorney, Marc Mukasey, argued that a prison sentence would be “too severe.” Mukasey instead advocated for a punishment that would avoid any time behind bars for Sanberg, saying that Sanberg displayed “no malice, no ill will, no greed” in his actions and that he was not an outlaw but “a good person who did a bad thing.” Judge Stephen V. Wilson, who has been a federal judge since 1985, disagreed.
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