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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court says the 55-month sentence given former Pennsylvania state Sen. Vincent Fumo of Philadelphia does not reflect the damage he did.
In a ruling handed down Tuesday, the appellate court said U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter did not do the right arithmetic when calculating the financial loss Fumo caused and ordered a new sentencing, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Buckwalter imposed a sentence far below the 21 years prosecutors requested.
Buckwalter put the financial damage at $2.5 million, but the appeals court found it to be $4 million.
Fumo, once one of the most powerful Democratic politicians in Philadelphia, is now in a federal prison in Kentucky. He has already served about two years.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Pease said Fumo will almost certainly get a longer sentence.
"We're back up in the neighborhood of 20 years," Pease said.
Fumo's lawyer, Dennis J. Cogan, said the appeals panel did not actually order Buckwalter to get his client more time.
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