The former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser was also sentenced on Friday afternoon in federal court in Washington, D.C., to 200 hours of community service and faces a $9,500 fine.

“I made a terrible mistake for which I paid dearly,” Papadopoulos said in court on Friday, before his sentence was handed down. “I was not honest, and I may have hindered the investigation.”

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Prosecutors had asked that Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in federal prison and fined $9,500 for his crime, arguing in an August filing that his misstatements did deliberate harm to the investigation in its early stages and that his cooperation did not yield significant gains.