JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Former U.S. Congresswoman Corrine Brown was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for her role in a conspiracy and fraud scheme.

Brown, the former Representative from District 5 in the U.S. House of Representatives, lost in a primary last year to current Representative Al Lawson after the district was redrawn, which now includes Hamilton County.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan sentenced the 71-year-old Brown to five years in federal prison after she was found guilty in May on 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud and tax crimes in relation to a fraudulent charity, One Door for Education.

According to Corrigan, the scheme was due to “entitlement and greed, committed to support a lifestyle that was beyond their lawful means.”

Elias “Ronnie” Simmons, Brown’s former Chief of Staff, was sentenced to four years in prison and the charity’s founder Carla Wiley received a 21-month sentence. Wiley had previously pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud while Simmons pled guilty to two counts of conspiracy and aiding and abetting theft of government funds.

Brown and Simmons, and others acting on their behalf, collected more than $833,000 in charitable donations for One Door under the premise that the money would be used on scholarships and school equipment.

However, according to the prosecution, more than $664,000 of that money was used fraudulently by Brown including $330,000 spent on events attended by her or in her honor, such as skybox seats at an NFL game, a luxury box at a concert and catered parties that had nothing to do with fundraising for the charity.

While utilizing One Door funds for her own benefit, the court also found that Brown falsely stated on tax returns that she had donated money to the charity in order to claim a substantial deduction.

“Brazen barely describes it,” Corrigan wrote in his sentencing order.

While he considered the many instances that Brown had helped individuals over the years, Corrigan ignored the pleas of Brown’s defense for probation, claiming it would not be sufficient.

“She cast aside the very laws she helped to enact,” Corrigan wrote. “The rules, she decided, did not apply to her.”

Wiley, who started the charity to honor her mother and to help disadvantaged children, was found to have personally stolen more than $182,000 from the charity to “feather her own nest,” according to Corrigan.

In addition to admitting his own role in the charity scheme, Simmons also admitted and pled guilty to misusing his chief of staff position to obtain a congressional job for a relative, who was paid more than $735,000 in salary between 2001 and 2016 despite performing no known work for the U.S. House. Simmons also admitted to diverting more than $80,000 of that salary for his own personal benefit between 2009 and 2015.

Brown served 12 terms in the U.S. House, first being elected to the Washington post in 1993 before. She previously had served in the Florida legislature.