A District of Columbia businessman who poured millions of illegal dollars into political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid and the Washington mayoral race, is set for sentencing.
Prosecutors are seeking six months of home confinement for Jeffrey Thompson at Monday's sentencing.
Thompson admitted setting up a $660,000 slush fund that aided Vincent Gray's election as District mayor in 2010. Several other people who worked on Gray's campaign pleaded guilty to felonies. Gray denied wrongdoing and was not charged, but the scandal was a factor in his failure to win re-election.
Prosecutors have said Thompson was helpful with their investigation, including some assistance "that did not result in public charges.'' But attorneys for some of his co-conspirators and backers of Gray have said Thompson's potential sentence is too lenient.
