Before sentencing · Defendants, families & defense counsel
Federal Sentence Reduction
Maximum Sentence Reduction.
Minimum Time Served.
Work directly with Joseph De Gregorio to pursue the lowest lawful, supportable federal sentence—with a preparation strategy built around your history, accountability and documented change.
The court decides the sentence. Individual outcomes vary.
Federal Sentence Reduction & Early Release Strategist
The work behind a stronger sentencing presentation
Your sentence will be individual.
Your preparation should be, too.
A federal case can consume your family’s attention long before sentencing. The question is what you can do now that will matter when your circumstances are considered.
Joseph works with you to connect your personal history, the harm caused, the steps you have taken and the safeguards you are putting in place. Each element must be truthful, relevant and supported.
Your defense attorney directs the legal case. SAG adds concentrated, personal preparation: developing the factual record, preparing you for the presentence process and helping counsel see the evidence behind your account.
The result is a coordinated body of work that counsel can evaluate for the court—not a promise that a particular argument or outcome will follow.
A documented client example
Mathew Bowyer:
preparing the person behind the case.
Mathew Bowyer retained Joseph De Gregorio directly to prepare him for his presentence investigation (PSR) interview. Bowyer is the bookmaker who accepted bets from Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara.
The preparation addressed accountability, restitution, personal narrative and a credible plan for moving forward. Cooperation, restitution, treatment and defense counsel’s advocacy also contributed to the record considered by the court.
This compares sentencing benchmarks with the original sentence imposed. It is not a later sentence reduction, a typical result or proof that any one contributor caused the outcome.
Read the case, sources and Joseph’s role →
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One connected preparation strategy
From the first deadline
to the sentencing hearing.
Start while there is time to do meaningful work.
Joseph reviews your current stage, upcoming PSR interview or sentencing date, available records and counsel’s priorities. Together, you identify what can be completed, what needs verification and what requires legal guidance.
Earlier preparation creates time to demonstrate actual progress. A short deadline requires an honest, focused plan. You receive agreed priorities, responsibilities and a working schedule.
Develop your personal account and prepare for the PSR.
Build a relevant life-history timeline, work through personal narrative development and prepare for the presentence interview. Joseph helps you communicate accurately in your own voice and identify records that support your account.
After the interview, the work can continue through factual follow-up and documented changes. Counsel handles legal advice, disputed allegations and formal objections to the PSR.
Show accountability through actions that can be checked.
Restitution records, treatment, education, employment, community contribution and rehabilitation matter as evidence of what you have actually done. Joseph helps connect those records to a coherent account of responsibility and change.
Compliance Rebuild Framework™: Has the defendant addressed the systems that enabled this conduct? The work links identified failures to practical safeguards, accountable people and dated evidence. Progress, gaps and setbacks remain visible.
Prepare the people and statements supporting you.
Develop character and professional support grounded in firsthand knowledge. Prepare for allocution with an account that reflects your own understanding of the harm, responsibility and future commitments.
The narrative, support letters and factual records should reinforce one another. Joseph helps identify inconsistencies and unsupported assertions before materials go to counsel.
Give counsel a stronger factual foundation.
Joseph’s Judicial Intelligence Methodology™ uses dated public decisions and sentencing remarks to inform preparation questions. Comparison cases remain distinct by facts, cooperation, recommendations and procedural stage.
SAG can develop source-linked factual summaries, chronologies and supporting exhibits for counsel’s sentencing-memorandum work. Counsel determines the legal relevance of Section 3553(a), the arguments to make and the materials to submit. SAG does not provide legal representation or file a sentencing memorandum for you.
Prepare for the next stage without losing continuity.
When relevant, the work includes credible surrender and future planning: family responsibilities, practical reporting needs and a realistic return-home plan. Continuing custody and release support is included only when specified in your written engagement.
Direct work with Joseph
A defined engagement.
Personal responsibility for the work.
Your circumstances
Joseph works directly with you to understand your history, deadlines and preparation needs. The plan is built for your case and coordinated with counsel as appropriate.
Your evidence
Your account is developed alongside supporting sources, a progress chronology and the agreed materials for legal review. Credibility depends on substance and consistency.
Your next steps
Your written agreement specifies deliverables, communication, responsibilities and timing. It makes clear what Joseph will do and what remains with you and your attorney.
Experience you can examine
Read the published work.
Understand the approach.
Joseph’s writing examines the presentence process, accountability, documented change and the preparation behind sentencing requests. His publications and professional education work offer a way to assess his thinking before discussing your own situation.
Publication, professional membership and speaking roles do not imply that those organizations endorse SAG.
Joseph’s own reported guideline range was 41–51 months; on September 14, 2022, he received one year and one day. He reports serving 125 days in federal custody before home confinement. These are separate sentencing and custody milestones, described in his background.
Before you decide
When should I contact Joseph?
As soon as you know the next significant deadline. Early work allows more time to document change and prepare accurately. If the PSR interview has already occurred or sentencing is close, Joseph will assess what can realistically be accomplished in the time available.
Do I still need my defense attorney?
Yes. SAG’s work supports preparation and counsel’s review. Your attorney provides legal advice, directs legal strategy and remains responsible for legal filings and courtroom advocacy.
Can you promise a particular sentence?
No. The objective is the lowest lawful, supportable sentence. The court weighs the complete case record and determines the sentence. Published examples and recommendations do not predict what will happen in your case.
What if I have already been sentenced?
Begin with Federal Early Release for surrender, custody support and release planning. A request to change an imposed sentence requires a separate legal basis and review by counsel.
Your next deadline deserves a plan
Speak with the person
who will do the work.
Tell Joseph where your case stands, what comes next and what your family needs. The private case review is the starting point for assessing fit and defining an individualized engagement.
A request does not book an appointment or retain SAG. Share sensitive case records later through an agreed process. Sentencing Advocacy Group is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. No outcome is guaranteed.