As reported in Law360, Isabelle Kirshner and Wayne Gosnell successfully argued for an extraordinary variance from the federal Sentencing Guidelines on behalf of their client who had participated in a bank fraud involving Transmar Commodity Group LLC that resulted in losses to a syndicate of banks of more than $350 million. Although the Sentencing Guidelines called for a sentence of between about 15 ½ and 19 ½ years imprisonment, Judge Rakoff agreed with Ms. Kirshner and Mr. Gosnell that their client was a “good man who did a bad thing” and that a sentence of just three years was sufficient in light of the client’s life of good works. Read the article here.