A high-ranking federal agency employee will spend the next six months in his home for accepting nearly $135,000 from his best friend to help the friend get a $4.5 million government contract.

David Anthony Sequeira’s sentence will allow the former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation telecommunications section supervisor to find work so that he can care for his 19-year-old daughter, who has cancer. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton’s sentencing order issued in Alexandria’s federal court allows Sequeira to leave his Arlington home for work.