Nick Baroni and Son Gets Light Sentence

Who write these recommended guidelines?

Nick Baroni and his son receive a year and a day for defrauding the Navy.


Saying he found the outpouring of sentiment about the case "strange," Williams said that as a judge from the "free state of Maryland," he was free to ignore "all the stuff going on in Louisiana" and make his own judgment based on evidence and sentencing guidelines.

Although free to ignore those guidelines, Williams decided on a sentence for Nick Baroni, 63, and his son, Keith, 39, within the recommended guidelines: 10 to 16 months.

Former New Orleans City Council President, Oliver Thomas, would have done better with this deal. Though true, he failed to cooperate with the feds, but his sentencing guidelines were more harsher.