153784P.pdf   01/04/2017  United States  v.  Julilath Kouangvan
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-3784
   U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa - Des Moines   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Murphy and Smith, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. The district court's sentencing decision was 
   not influenced by the race or national origin of the defendant and her 
   victims, nor by her immigration to the U.S. or her inability to pay 
   restitution; references by the government and the court to defendant's 
   having duped her fellow Laotians were an explanation of the nature and 
   circumstances of the offense and the severity of her misconduct; there was 
   nothing in the court's comments to signal that it was increasing 
   defendant's sentence because it was unlikely she would ever repay a 
   significant portion of the more than $500,000 she stole from investors in 
   her scheme and the nearly $200,000 she owed in unpaid taxes.