Prosecutors today asked that former Del. Phillip A. Hamilton be given a sentence of more than 12-and-a-half years in prison for bribery and extortion.
The ex-legislator from Newport News was convicted in May for arranging funding for the Center for Teacher Quality and Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University in 2007 in exchange for a job as its director.
He is to be sentenced Aug. 12 by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson, who is free to impose a term under or over the 151 to 188 months called for under U.S. sentencing guidelines.
“This is a case without precedent in annals of the history of this commonwealth and its state legislative officials,” the U.S. Attorney’s office wrote in its sentencing brief to Hudson.
The government is seeking a term within the guidelines, complaining: “Essentially, the defendant sold his position of public trust, violating his oath of office to the citizens of Virginia, in exchange for the extraction of a personal benefit to which he was not entitled.”
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