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It's not clear to me what's accomplished by sending this guy to prison for almost five years (57 months), a longer sentence than many violent criminals receive. A lifetime ban on federal funding, the huge fine he received ($7.2 million), and losing his job would have insured that he would have never done this again, and served as a very significant deterrent to anyone else contemplating a similar fraud. Sending him to prison seems like gratuitous cruelty towards him and his family, and it's also a burden for U.S. taxpayers.