Opinion ID: 3171028
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Restitution Loss Amount

Text: The Pretrial Sentencing Report proposed a loss calculation and an award of restitution, each in the amount of $5,617,555. Prieto objected to both in his sentencing memorandum. With respect to the amount of restitution, he challenged both the method of calculating the amount, and the imposition of any amount in the absence of returned victim impact statements from those presumed to have suffered the losses to be remedied by the payment of restitution. At the sentencing hearing itself, the court and counsel first discussed the method of fixing the loss calculation under the Guidelines. The court sided with Prieto. The district court then directly asked Prieto's counsel if there were any other objections. In response, counsel pressed the same methodology objection she made concerning the Guidelines loss calculation, concluding that we believe that the restitution is that $2,370,263.70, his portion. The court then confirmed with all - 21 - present whether that calculation was correct. After all agreed, the court again asked if there were any other objections. Not to this, replied counsel for Prieto. Now, on appeal, Prieto seeks to revive his earlier argument that the absence of any returned victim impact statements precludes an award of any amount of restitution. Based on the foregoing record, counsel's discussion with the court either waived such an argument or, by itself, provided a rational basis in the record to support the amount. United States v. SalasFernández, 620 F.3d 45, 48 (1st Cir. 2010).