The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Thompson, 81 F.3d 877 (9th Cir. 1996):
In United States v. Buffington, 879 F.Supp. 1220, 1222 (N.D.Ga.1995), the district court addressed "the extent of the information a defendant must provide in order to satisfy subsection (5)." The court held that the "[d]efendant is obliged to provide information relevant to his own course of conduct and his immediate chain of distribution, i.e., from whom he bought and to whom he sold, if he wishes to avail himself of the benefits of 3553(f)." Id. at 1223.
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