> Sentencing guidelines for his crime was 0-12 months.

There's obviously plenty of dispute between where particular situations fall on the guidelines, but his own lawyers argued that he should get 12-18 months (plus other penalties), as a downward deviation from 27 years calculated under the guidelines. [0]

So, I'm curious how you arrived at a guideline sentence of 0-12 months. That would seem to imply Shkreli’s lawyers were grossly incompetent.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/pharma-...

Shkreli's lawyers sought a 12+ month sentence. Sentencing guidelines allowed for a max of 25+ years

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/pharma-...

not according to the Judge who cited Federal Law to determine he did incur 10.4 million in losses for the investors [1], it's complicated even though he did pay the investors back after they became suspicious. My understanding is this, say you leave your ferrari at the valet and the valet driver took it on a joy ride and returns it undamaged, you didn't lose anything, but the valet driver did break the law.

1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-shkreli/pharma-...

Can you link to the US sentencing guidelines please?

Elsehwere in the thread I've linked to the UK version, and it seems he'd have got a similar sentence over here. Although we do have parole, so he'd be out a lot sooner.