Corrine Brown case: Former congresswoman asks to stay out of prison until appeal resolved

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The attorney for former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has filed a motion asking that she be able to stay out of prison until her appeal of her sentence on federal fraud charges is resolved.

Brown was sentenced on Dec. 4 to five years in prison and a three-year supervised release. Brown will voluntarily surrender and her report date will not be earlier than Jan. 8.

In May, a jury convicted Brown on 18 counts for stealing from the charity One Door for Education, filing false tax returns and other counts.

The latest motion in the case, filed Monday, states that Brown was placed on pretrial release on July 8, 2016, "and during the entire period that she was under pretrial services supervision, she never had a violation."

The motion goes on to state that the Florida Democrat "asserts that the Court has already made a finding with regard to whether or not she is likely to flee or pose a danger to the community given that the Court granted her voluntary surrender."

Brown's attorney also filed a notice on Monday that the appeal would be submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Also on Dec. 4, Brown's former chief of staff Ronnie Simmons, was sentenced to 48 months in jail for conspiracy to commit mail/wire fraud and theft of government funds. Carla Wiley, president of One Door for Education, was sentenced to 21 months in prison and a three-year supervised release for her part in Brown's fraud case.

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