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No. 14-4349
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western
District of North Carolina, at Charlotte.
Robert J. Conrad,
Jr., District Judge. (3:13-cr-00079-RJC-1)
Submitted:
Decided:
PER CURIAM:
Phani
Raju
Bhima
Raju
pled
guilty,
pursuant
to
he
was
charged
with
conspiracy
to
defraud
the
United
in
violation
of
18
U.S.C.
1546,
(2012);
unlawful
and
U.S.C.
1324(a)(3)(A)
recruiting,
aiding
and
and
abetting
the
same,
(2012)
and
18
referring
for
fee
in
violation
U.S.C.
2;
unauthorized
of
hiring,
aliens
for
18
U.S.C.
1956(h)
(2012).
At
sentencing,
the
district
months
sentence.
imprisonment
and
imposed
forty-eight-month
was
imposed.
See
U.S.
Sentencing
Guidelines
Manual
response brief.
judgment.
We review any criminal sentence, whether inside, just
outside,
or
significantly
reasonableness,
standard.
under
outside
a
the
Guidelines
deferential
range,
for
abuse-of-discretion
2012); see Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38, 46, 51 (2007).
When determining a sentence, the district court must calculate
the defendants advisory Guidelines range and consider it in
conjunction with the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a)
(2012).
We review the
United States v.
the
(PSR),
relevant
which
facts
set
detailed
forth
some
of
in
the
Rajus
presentence
efforts
to
report
mask
his
Although
conduct
described
in
PSR
3
which,
at
minimum,
established
an
investigation
3C1.1
attempt
into
targets.
to
Rajus
We
obstruct
business
thus
discern
or
impede
is
the
no
the
sort
clear
ongoing
that
error
in
USSG
the
We
therefore
affirm
the
district
courts
judgment.
may
move
representation.
this
and
materials
legal
before
for
leave
to
withdraw
from
court
contentions
are
adequately
this
and
argument
court
presented
would
not
in
the
aid
the
decisional process.
AFFIRMED