McNabb in the News (5-6-06)

Senior Principal Douglas McNabb has been quoted in a Las Vegas Review-Journal article about the political corruption trial of Dario Herrera and Mary Kincaid-Chauncey.

Douglas McNabb, … who specializes in federal criminal cases, said Herrera and Kincaid-Chauncey face prison sentences of at least 33 months under federal guidelines, which are advisory.

The potential sentences could go as high as 63 months if Hicks holds the pair responsible for the total amount of bribes involved in the case, McNabb said.

According to Galardi's plea agreement, he paid between $200,000 and $400,000 in bribes to public officials. Cases involving such amounts result in a sentence range of 51 to 63 months, McNabb said.

The attorney said Hicks could choose to increase the sentences if he finds that the defendants' conduct "was part of a systematic or pervasive corruption of a governmental function, process or office that may cause loss of public confidence in government."

He said Hicks also could increase the sentences if he finds that Herrera and Kincaid-Chauncey, who professed their innocence from the witness stand, committed perjury.

"The trial judges are given a lot of discretion," McNabb said.^[1]

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[1] Adrienne Packer, Political Corruption Trial: Convicted, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 6, 2006.