Sentencing Advocacy Group · Preparation resources
Federal Sentencing Guides: Answers for Every Stage
Start with the question you are facing. Find the relevant guide, organize the evidence and bring clearer questions to your defense team.
What do federal judges want to understand?
Explore 36 judicial voices on credibility, accountability, clear advocacy and meaningful preparation.
Explore judges’ perspectivesFind your preparation guide.
Federal sentencing mitigation
Build a documented personal record that counsel can use.
Read the guide →What happens after a federal indictment?
Understand the stages, preserve records and plan the next steps.
Read the guide →How to prepare for federal sentencing
Organize the timeline, documents and preparation team.
Read the guide →PSR interview in federal court
Prepare accurate history and records for the presentence investigation.
Read the guide →Federal sentencing character letters
Focus letters on specific firsthand observations.
Read the guide →Federal sentencing memorandum
Support counsel with a clear, indexed evidence file.
Read the guide →Federal sentencing Guidelines for fraud
Examine loss, role, harm and disputed calculations.
Read the guide →First-time offender federal sentencing
Understand criminal history and zero-point questions.
Read the guide →Federal wire fraud sentence
Separate the charge, financial record and individual circumstances.
Read the guide →Federal tax fraud sentencing
Reconcile tax records and document future compliance.
Read the guide →Federal healthcare fraud sentencing
Organize billing, role, patient-impact and mitigation evidence.
Read the guide →How to prepare for a downward variance
Connect a supported request to verifiable mitigation.
Read the guide →Federal prison consultant or sentencing strategist?
Understand the services and choose help for your stage.
Read the guide →How much time will I serve in federal prison?
Explore sentence scenarios and their limitations.
Read the guide →First Step Act calculator
Estimate credit accrual, separately from release-date eligibility.
Read the guide →RDAP eligibility
Separate treatment admission from an early-release incentive.
Read the guide →Halfway house after federal prison
Build a realistic reentry plan and understand placement questions.
Read the guide →From the headlines to the preparation file
Federal case analysis
New cases can illuminate the questions that shape sentencing exposure. Our educational analysis separates allegations, admitted facts and unresolved issues. It examines loss, role, restitution, acceptance, PSR preparation, mitigation and variance evidence without commenting on guilt or predicting a sentence.
2026 Medicare fraud charges
What a September indictment raises about billing loss, role, separate counts and the Guidelines transition.
Read the analysis →2026 employment-tax guilty plea
What remains to prepare before sentencing: tax records, financial controls, mitigation and manual selection.
Read the analysis →How to read these case analyses
Each article identifies the dated public source and procedural status. Allegations are not findings. General preparation observations are separated from reported facts. Guidelines provisions require review of the applicable manual and case law. We do not infer guilt, claim representation or predict an individual outcome from a press release.
Connect preparation with published analysis.
Explore Joseph De Gregorio’s publication and media record, then use the guide relevant to your situation to organize the next conversation with counsel. Readers preparing a case can begin with sentencing mitigation; attorneys can visit the attorney resource page.
Educational information, reviewed October 5, 2026. Sentencing Advocacy Group is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Counsel evaluates the law and facts in each case. Individual outcomes vary.