It was just months ago that she pleaded guilty to federal fraud, tax and conspiracy charges over a scheme involving sales of her self-published Healthy Holly children's books.
Prosecutors had been seeking a five-year prison sentence for the 69-year-old former mayor who has spent decades in Maryland politics. Pugh's lawyers, in turn, had asked the judge for a more lenient prison sentence of one year and one day, noting that she is a first-time offender and she entered a guilty plea.
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