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Posted: 2020-03-17T17:58:19Z | Updated: 2020-03-18T09:57:13Z

SAN DIEGO (AP) A federal judge Tuesday sentenced former California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter to 11 months in prison after pleading guilty for stealing his campaign funds and spending the money on everything from outings with friends to his daughters birthday party.

The ex-Marines defense attorneys had asked for home confinement, citing his military service including fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his nearly six terms in Congress. Hunter resigned from Congress in January after representing one of Southern Californias last solidly Republican districts.

Prosecutors submitted 87 pages of details to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas J. Whelan ahead of Tuesdays sentencing that showed a corrupt congressman who intentionally and repeatedly stole from his campaign funds for a decade.

Whelan also sentenced him to three years of supervised release.