He was also a professor at Columbia Law School and a legal scholar whose views helped to establish sentencing guidelines for the federal courts.
Rabbi Bergman plead guilty to 2 of 11 counts, including defrauding his nursing homes of their Medicaid funds of 2.5 million dollars.
Four of the officers, including Phillips, were found guilty of having falsely inflated earnings reports and having deceived investors, auditors, and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
[7] In 1978, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear appeals by the defendants and left intact their fines and sentences imposed by Judge Frankel.
[citation needed] His graceful writing style, memorable anecdotes, and palpable sense of outrage made the book accessible to a wide policy-making public, and pushed his proposal for sentencing commissions empowered to create binding sentencing guidelines to restrain judicial discretion to the forefront of the criminal reform agenda of the 1970s and 1980s.
[citation needed] The federal sentencing guidelines were widely criticized as an unnecessarily rigid and extreme version of Frankel's idea.
[citation needed] Frankel's papers from 1963 to 2002 are housed in the Special Collections of Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.