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163241P.pdf   08/08/2017  United States  v.  Sean Meadows
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-3241
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Colloton, Circuit Judges] 
   Criminal case - Sentencing. For the court's prior opinion in the matter, 
   see United States v. Meadows, 637 F. App'x 255 (8th Cir. 2016). In this 
   multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, no error in imposing an enhancement 
   under Guidelines Sec. 2b1.1(b)(10)(C) for using sophisticated means given 
   the life-span of the scheme and the exorbitant amount of money defendant 
   took from investors, as well as his improper use of tax and investment 
   forms and his use of forged statistics; no error in imposing an 
   enhancement under Guidelines Sec. 2B1.1(b)(19)(A) for violation of 
   securities law by an investment advisor; within-guidelines sentence was 
   not substantively unreasonable.