article_snippet: Diana Durand, who had pleaded guilty to raising illegal campaign money for two congressional candidates, was sentenced on Tuesday to three months in custody. 
article_snippet: Diana Durand pleaded guilty in September to violating the Federal Election Campaign Act by directing more than $10,000 in campaign contributions to two candidates for the House of Representatives in 2010 through straw donors whom Diana Durand reimbursed, avoiding federal caps on donations.
article_snippet: But in September Diana Durand copped to the charges for which Diana Durand was sentenced today.
article_snippet: It was not immediately clear whether Diana Durand would serve the three months in jail or in a halfway house.
article_snippet: U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson of Brooklyn also ordered Diana Durand to pay a $10,000 fine.
article_snippet: U.S. District Judge Sterling Johnson of Brooklyn faced up to eight years in prison and a maximum $600,000 fine.