United States v. Yevgeniy Nikulin

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

DEC 22 2021

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 20-10322

Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. Nos. 3:16-cr-00440-WHA-1 v. 3:16-cr-00440-WHA

YEVGENIY ALEKSANDROVICH

NIKULIN, AKA Chinabig01, AKA MEMORANDUM* dex.007, AKA itBlackHat, AKA valeriy.krutov3,

Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California William Alsup, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted December 10, 2021 San Francisco, California

Before: MURGUIA, Chief Judge, and IKUTA and VANDYKE, Circuit Judges.

Defendant Yevgeniy Nikulin appeals a $1,734,000 restitution order and an

88-month sentence imposed following his convictions for various offenses based

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. on computer intrusions affecting the companies LinkedIn, Formspring, and

Dropbox. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291.

Even assuming…