Former ASG Human Resources Department director Evelyn Langford has been sentenced to serve nearly two years in a federal prison for wire fraud and bribery in connection with accepting more than $200,000 from Native Hawaiian Holding Company (NHHC) official Quin Rudin.

Langford appeared today at the federal court in Oakland, California for sentencing by U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar.

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California spokesman, Abraham Simmons told Samoa News that Langford was sentenced to 22 months in prison, 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $260,000.

Simmons says Langford was ordered to surrender on or before September 25, 2015 to start serving her jail term at a designated federal prison.  Simmons declined to comment on other Samoa News questions, but says an official media statement will be issued today.

The NHHC is an off-island company, which had been awarded, by ASG, a multi-million dollar contract under the federal National Emergency Grant program of the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL).

According to court documents, Langford was wire transferred $10,000 from the NHHC bank account and $25,000 from a company called Dearborne International, which is controlled by Rudin.

Federal prosecutors had sought a prison term of no greater than 46 months, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release. They also asked the court to order the defendant to pay $260,000 in restitution to ASG.

The defense had asked the court to sentence Langford to 12 months in jail, allowing her to serve at least some of that time in home detention or community confinement in order to allow her to begin making restitution (as ordered by the court) as soon as possible, and to allow her to care for and support her family, especially her young son.

Samoa News will report other details in Monday’s edition.