Sentence examples similar to smaller scale offenses from inspiring English sources
For the most part, the cases were for small-scale offenses committed many years ago.
In neighboring DeSoto County, six people were arrested on Monday in Arcadia for violating the local curfew in an incident law enforcement officials say may have been looting-related, and officials elsewhere reported a similar smattering of small-scale offenses.
But officials at the Justice Department, which prosecutes federal white-collar crimes, objected to the plan for just the opposite reason, saying that the new guidelines largely ignore corporate offenders in smaller-scale offenses that involve smaller amounts of money or fewer investors.
The amount is almost $2 billion more than its total profits last year and a staggering sum compared with the relatively meagre $667m that Standard Chartered, a British bank, paid in 2012 for similar offenses, albeit on a smaller scale.
On Dec. 10, 2012, the U.S. government penalized it with a $327 million fine -- a paltry amount, considering the societal consequences of the crime and the zeal with which the government pursues financial criminals whose offenses are similar, yet on a far smaller scale.
A smaller scale may work.
The truth was on a smaller scale.
At a smaller scale additional partitioning occurs.
