Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force official charged in a deal that allowed her to get a job with Boeing after overseeing a controversial deal on tanker planes, was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison, officials said.
Druyun had pleaded guilty earlier this year to a criminal conspiracy charge for her role in the deal that gave her a lucrative job with the aerospace company after she pressed for a lease agreement on refuelling aircraft.
A spokeswoman for the US Attorney's office in Alexandria, Virginia, said Druyun's sentence also calls for seven months community confinement after release from prison, three years probation, 150 hours of community service and a 5,000 dollar fine.
Druyun, who was the principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition and management, helped negotiate the 2002 deal with the Boeing Company to lease 100 Boeing 767 tanker aircraft for the Air Force for more than 20 billion dollars.
She accepted a job with Boeing in January 2003 as vice-president and deputy general manager of the Missile Defence Systems.
Prosecutors said Druyun's daughter, herself a Boeing employee, contacted a senior executive of Boeing in September 2002, setting in motion a process in which Druyun worked out a deal to retire from the Air Force and accept a the senior position at Boeing.