Ouch.

Via ABC News::

Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 17 to 21 years for a former Pennsylvania congressman convicted of a racketeering scheme that included a string of illicit financial moves to cover up an illegal $1 million campaign loan.

Eleven-term Philadelphia Democrat Chaka Fattah is scheduled to be sentenced Monday, the denouement of a 30-year political career that took him on Air Force One and to a seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee.

Fattah, 60, got into financial trouble when his decision to run for Philadelphia mayor in 2007 brushed up against the city’s strict new campaign finance limits. As he struggled to raise money, he routed a $1 million loan from Sallie Mae chairman Albert Lord through a consultant, then reversed the secretive moves through a charity and others when Lord called in the debt.

“For over 20 years, Fattah held himself out … as a champion of education and clean government,” Justice Department lawyer Eric L. Gibson wrote in a filing late Monday that sought a sentence within the guideline range. Instead, “Fattah sought to strengthen himself politically, enrich himself and his co-conspirators, steal from non-profits and the federal taxpayers, and defraud his campaigns, their creditors and a credit union.”