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153563P.pdf   11/23/2016  United States  v.  Coleman Carpenter
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3563
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Bright, Author, with Wollman and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. That portion of the restitution order 
   representing defendant's employer's loss is affirmed; however, the portion 
   of the restitution order representing attorney's fees and expenses the 
   employer paid to an outside counsel during the investigation of 
   defendant's fraudulent scheme and his prosecution is vacated, and the 
   matter is remanded to the district court with directions to address 
   whether the attorney's fees incurred after the government initiated its 
   own investigation were "necessary" under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3663A(B)(4).