US seeks 6-day sentence for ex-DC Council chair

Published November 1, 2012 10:15pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — A former D.C. Council chairman should spend six days in jail for lying on bank loan applications and for committing a misdemeanor campaign finance violation, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

But a lawyer for Kwame R. Brown requested community service instead, saying his client — a onetime rising political star — had already been punished with humiliation and ridicule in his very public descent from power.

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