Filimonov faces up to 175 years in prison

Assessment

The Department of Justice states "a minimum of two years and a maximum penalty of 175 years in prison." The figure is the arithmetic sum of statutory maximums across eleven counts: 30 years each for bank fraud and the bank/wire conspiracy affecting a financial institution, 20 for wire fraud, and so on, plus the mandatory two consecutive years for aggravated identity theft. Federal sentences are set under the Guidelines and 18 U.S.C. §3553 and run concurrently by default; the stacked maximum is accurate as a number and meaningless as a forecast. The two-year minimum is the only part of the sentence that is fixed.