Judges routinely receive letters stating why a defendant should be spared a jail sentence. Federal Judge Charles Kocoras said the letters he gets “often have a pro forma quality about them. The letters I received about Ty Warner were, in many respects, quite different.” In all, there were 70 letters written in support of billionaire Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner, who faced a prison sentence of up to five years for failing to report more than $24.4 million tucked in two Swiss banks and evading nearly $5.6 million in federal income taxes. Here are seven the judge considered and notated.
Judges routinely receive letters stating why a defendant should be spared a jail sentence. Federal Judge Charles Kocoras said the letters he gets “often have a pro forma quality about them. The letters I received about Ty Warner were, in many respects, quite different.” In all, there were 70 letters written in support of billionaire Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner, who faced a prison sentence of up to five years for failing to report more than $24.4 million tucked in two Swiss banks and evading nearly $5.6 million in federal income taxes. Here are seven the judge considered and notated.
Judges routinely receive letters stating why a defendant should be spared a jail sentence. Federal Judge Charles Kocoras said the letters he gets “often have a pro forma quality about them. The letters I received about Ty Warner were, in many respects, quite different.” In all, there were 70 letters written in support of billionaire Beanie Babies founder Ty Warner, who faced a prison sentence of up to five years for failing to report more than $24.4 million tucked in two Swiss banks and evading nearly $5.6 million in federal income taxes. Here are seven the judge considered and notated.