Matthew Glavin, who resigned as head of Southeastern Legal Foundation in October after pleading guilty to sexual misconduct at Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, was also fined $1,000 and banned from federal parks during his probation.
At a brief sentencing hearing Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Christopher Hagey rejected a prosecutor's request that Glavin be confined to his home for three months.
Glavin's attorney, John Malcolm, told the magistrate that home detention would interfere with Glavin's treatment for alcoholism. Under the law, he could have been sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000.
Malcolm said Glavin's arrest on sex charges involving an undercover federal agent had been the target of ridicule and comments from "James Carville on the left and Bob Barr on the right and by Jay Leno on nationwide television."
Southeastern Legal Foundation filed an ethics complaint in 1998 that led the Arkansas Supreme Court's committee on professional conduct to disbar Clinton in May.
The complaint, which said Clinton gave "false, misleading and evasive" answers in Paula Jones' civil lawsuit against the president, was filed by Georgia State University constitutional law professor L. Lynn Hogue, who has been named temporary president and chief executive officer of the foundation.
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