Who Are The 135 Feds w/SRU Diplomas?

[Don Dresden]

My prediction for Dixie's sentence:

time served (amount of time in custody until she bonded out)
6 months home confinement w/ electronic monitoring
36 months supervised release (under the supervision of a U.S. Probation & Parole officer)
some type of fine
court costs + cost of electronic monitoring

Here's the sentence the marshal with the SRU degree got today (July 1), from another judge:

A former supervisor for the U.S. Marshals Service was sentenced today for lying on a federal job promotion application after buying a phony college degree from a Spokane-based diploma mill.

David F. Brodhagen was placed on two years probation, fined $500 and ordered to complete 80 hours of community service by visiting Senior U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour from Seattle.

...Accepting responsibility for the crime “was the important thing," the judge said.

Deputy marshal sentenced for lying

Nice fish hack writing.  Presumably he meant that Judge Coughenour ordered Brodhagen to complete 80 hours of community service, not that he was ordered to visit with the judge for 80 hours.  But since visiting with the judges and clerks is pretty much all deputy marshals do to earn their $96,292 anyway, maybe not.

Since Dixie isn't pals with any judges, can she still expect the same kind of light sentence?  Since Dixie never defrauded or damaged anyone, how can she "accept responsibility" for anything?