Frank Rosenthal is sitting in prison for what was merely a failed business venture. The ardent Trump supporter was sentenced under the Biden administration to over 15 years for two counts of wire fraud — considered a “process crime” that is often used to convict people when you can’t get them on a real criminal charge. It just means someone used electronic communications, such as phone calls or emails, to allegedly wrongfully obtain money. If you can’t align a real crime with how the money was supposedly wrongfully obtained, you use wire fraud.

Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz has called the sentence excessive. U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha in California, who was first appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, exceeded both the prosecutors’ recommendation and the sentencing guidelines with his sentence.

The sentencing guideline range was 98-120 months, far less than 188 months. The sentence was significantly above the recommendation of 10 years from prosecutors, despite the fact that Rosenthal took a plea deal. This is very uncommon. Unfortunately, the Central District of California is considered one of the most aggressive courts in the country for going criminally after financial-related issues, Dershowitz told the family.

Rosenthal was accused of defrauding investors of $3.9 million. There are many cases where defendants defrauded others of far more money but received shorter sentences. Feeding Our Future-related defendants, who were convicted of defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars, received mostly 4-5 year sentences or even probation. Feeding Our Future was........

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