Cong. Schakowsky's husband gets five months in prison

My congresswoman's husband is going to prison.

Breaking news from AP:

The husband of an Illinois congresswoman was sentenced to five months in federal prison Wednesday for writing rubber checks and tax fraud.

Robert Creamer, 58, husband of U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, also was ordered placed on house arrest for 11 months after he finishes his prison term.

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Moran said that Creamer had acted not to get money for himself but to keep a public interest group that he founded from going broke. The judge also said that neither the banks nor the government had suffered any "out-of-pocket loss" as a result of the check-kiting scheme.

But Moran brushed aside arguments from scores of politically connected Creamer well-wishers that he had devoted his life to the poor and the downtrodden and thus deserved a lighter sentence.