Former Republican congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley has been sentenced to serve five months in prison in a campaign consulting scandal involving former Connecticut Governor John Rowland.Wilson-Foley apologized at the hearing Tuesday in federal court in New Haven.
Prosecutors say Wilson-Foley and her husband, Brian Foley, created a sham contract between Foley's nursing home company and Rowland to hide the $35,000 they paid the former Republican governor for help on Wilson-Foley's failed 2012 campaign for the 5th Congressional District seat. Authorities say the couple hid Rowland's role because of his corruption conviction a decade ago.
Prosecutors had asked for a 10-month prison term.
Wilson-Foley and her husband each pleaded guilty to conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions.
Rowland was sentenced last week to 30 months in prison. Brian Foley is serving three years of probation.
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