article_snippet.sent: Maureen McDonnell's and Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell who has been found guilty of corruption husband, former Gov. Bob McDonnell, were convicted in a joint trial in September of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams company's nutritional supplements.
article_snippet.sent: McDonnell, pictured in February, and her husband, former Gov. Bob McDonnell, were convicted in a joint trial in September of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams .
article_snippet.sent: A six-week jury trial exposed details of the McDonnells' strained marriage, and detailed the loans and gifts they took from Maureen McDonnell's. '
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers for both Maureen McDonnell's and Maureen McDonnell's wife argued in separate briefs that the favors Maureen McDonnell's did for Maureen McDonnell's did not amount to 'official acts' covered by federal bribery law . '
article_snippet.sent: At Maureen McDonnell's's sentencing, Maureen McDonnell's described Maureen McDonnell's — who testified under immunity for the prosecution — as a 'serpent' that Maureen let into the Executive Mansion.
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers for both Bob McDonnell and his wife Bob McDonnell and his wife his wife argued in separate briefs that the favors he did for Williams did not amount to 'official acts' covered by federal bribery law'official acts' covered by federal bribery law.
article_snippet.sent: According to Maureen McDonnell's appeal, Maureen McDonnell's Maureen McDonnell's gave the jury an overly broad definition of 'official act,' and in what Maureen McDonnell's lawyers described as an 'Orwellian moment,' the prosecution extended it to his wife to prove conspiracy between the spouses, even though his wife was never a government official, reported the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
highlights_snippet.sent: McDonnells were convicted in a joint trial in September of accepting more than $165,000 in gifts and loans .
  