LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been sentenced to 2 years in prison following her conviction last year on federal bribery and extortion charges.
U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes handed down the sentence Friday.
The 71-year-old Democrat was convicted last year of steering state investments to a broker who gave her $36,000 in cash, including $6,000 in a pie box.
She resigned in 2013, days after she was arrested by FBI agents in a sting operation.
Her attorney had argued that Shoffner, because of her age, should receive a sentence of 12 months to 18 months in prson, with half in home detention.
Federal prosecutors recommended a sentence of 15 to nearly 20 years in prison, saying a lighter sentence would send the wrong message about public corruption