Tashbook

MEMORANDUM **

Appellant Robert Jay Tashbook challenges his conviction and sentence resulting from various charges of attempted and actual unlawful sexual conduct with minors. Specifically, Tashbook was charged with various violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2422 (b), 2423(a), 2251(a), and *613 2252(a)(2). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . We affirm the convictions and the sentence.

I.

Because the parties are familiar with the factual background of the crimes Tashbook committed, we need not recite them in detail here. After a nine-day trial, Tashbook was convicted on 11 counts. The court then dismissed count 5, leaving 10 counts for sentencing. In a long, detailed, and thoughtful sentencing hearing, the court imposed a total sentence of 60 years. The court imposed a 30-year mandatory minimum sentence for both counts 3 and 4, to run concurrently to each other; a mandatory minimum 30-year sentence for both counts 8 and 9, to run concurrently to each other, but consecutively to counts 3 and 4. The remaining counts were given 15-year sentences, to run concurrent to various portions of the 30-year sentences. Thus each segment of the sentence was supported by a statutory…