Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for fraud and other charges, according to court records.
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Brown will also get a three-year supervised release.
Brown was convicted earlier this year of taking money raised for a charity as well as lying on her taxes and Congressional financial disclosure forms.
Her codefendants, Carla Wiley and Elisa "Ronnie" Simmons, pleaded guilty to the charges they were facing.
Simmons pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and aiding and abetting theft of government funds, and Wiley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to the U.S. District Court's sentencing order.
Wiley was sentenced to 21 months in prison with a three-year supervised release, while Simmons got four years in prison and a three-year supervised release, the sentencing order stated.
The 71-year-old Brown, who represented a district that at one point stretched from Jacksonville down into Orlando, was found guilty of 18 counts of fraud and tax evasion.
Brown served part of Central Florida in Congress for more than 20 years until she lost the Democratic primary in 2016.
She could spend the rest of her life in prison.