Cameron Collins gets probation - and his father gets all the blame
NEW YORK – U.S. District Court Judge Vernon S. Broderick on Thursday faced the son of former Rep. Chris Collins in his Manhattan courtroom, and prepared to hand down a sentence in the insider trading scheme hatched by the former Congressman that ensnared the son.
In making the decision to put Cameron Collins on probation and not behind bars, the judge found a precedent not in a law book, but in a much older book.
"I decline to adhere to the idiom that the sins of the father are visited upon the son," Broderick said, paraphrasing a passage from the Book of Exodus in the Bible as he sentenced Cameron Collins to five years of probation – including six months of home confinement – for conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Cameron Collins will also have to pay a $150,000 fine and do 500 hours of community service.
That's a considerably milder sentence than what's recommended under federal sentencing guidelines, which say Cameron Collins should spend 37 to 46 months behind bars. Prosecutors said Cameron Collins deserved "a substantial term of confinement," although less than the 26-month sentence the judge gave the elder Collins last week.
Instead, the judge gave Cameron Collins the sentence his lawyers suggested.
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