Opinion ID: 778482
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Managers' Challenge to Restitution

Text: 73 Managers claim that the district court erred in ordering each to pay nearly $8.7 million in restitution to victims. According to Managers, the court below should have declined to order restitution, given each man's inability to pay. Challenges to the legality of a sentence are reviewed de novo. See United States v. DeSalvo, 41 F.3d 505, 511 (9th Cir.1994). 74 Managers' challenge to the district court's restitution order is frivolous. Title 18 U.S.C. § 2327 states that a court shall order full restitution to all victims in cases involving wire fraud, mail fraud, or conspiracy to commit such fraud, if the offense is committed in connection with telemarketing. See 18 U.S.C. § 2327(a). 33 Section 2327 makes clear that such an order is mandatory, and that a court may not decline to issue the order because of the economic circumstances of the defendant. 18 U.S.C. § 2327(b)(4). 34 Because this case involved wire and mail fraud in connection with telemarketing, and because an order of restitution to victims is mandatory in such cases — regardless of a defendant's ability to pay — the district court was correct to order Managers to pay restitution to their victims.