Meng Gets One Month Sentence: Report

Former Assemblyman Jimmy Meng, father of U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, was sentenced to one month in prison this week in a bribery scandal that broke during his daughter's run for Congress, according to NY1.

Meng will also have to pay restitution of $30,000, and will be subject to four months of house arrest.

after federal investigators discovered that he was extorting funds from a former business partner who was facing jail time.

At the time, Meng claimed an ability to influence court proceedings to get his victim a lighter sentence, investigators said.

He pleaded guilty in November to wire fraud.

Meng's daughter, Grace, wrote a letter to the presiding judge asking for leniency — and apparently the letter worked. Meng was facing up to 20 years in prison for the scheme, and will not serve even one. 

The sentence was lighter than many other Queens legislators have been forced to serve, including former Forest Hills Assemblyman Alan Hevesi. Hevesi served 19 months for a scam involving the state's pension funds.