UPDATE: Lisa Wilson-Foley of Simsbury Scheduled for Sentencing 10 AM, Tuesday

Update 5:51 p.m.:

Lisa Wilson-Foley’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office announce late Monday afternoon.

“Lisa Wilson-Foley is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven,” the announcement said.

Original article:

Lisa Wilson-Foley, a 2012 candidate for Congress from Simsbury, is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in federal court Tuesday for violating federal campaign finance law, NBC Connecticut reported.

Wilson-Foley and her husband, Brian Foley, have each pleaded guilty to conspiring with former Gov. John Rowland to hide $35,000 the couple was paying Rowland to help in her campaign.

Rowland, who has been sentenced to prison in previous, unrelated cases, was sentenced again last week to 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in the scheme.

Prosecutors say the scheme worked this way: Lisa Wilson-Foley wanted to hide from the public the fact that Rowland was working for her campaign. The scheme involved Brian Foley paying the former governor for nominal work for a nursing home Foley owns. Rowland received the money from September 2011 to April 2012.

Brian Foley, 63, of Simsbury, was sentenced in early January to three years of probation, the first three months of which he was required to serve in a halfway house. He also was ordered to pay a fine of $30,000, and to pay the cost of his community confinement.

On March 31, 2014, Foley and Wilson-Foley each pleaded guilty to conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions.

On Sept. 19, 2014, a jury found Rowland guilty of two counts of falsification of records in a federal investigation, one count of conspiracy, two counts of causing false statements to be made to the FEC, and two counts of causing illegal campaign contributions.

Picture: Lisa Foley-Wilson, former candidate for U.S. Congress

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