Former D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown (right) and attorney Fred Cooke outside U.S. District Court earlier this year.

Former D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown was sentenced today to a day in custody—he’ll be set free today at 5:30 p.m.—and six months of home confinement for having lied on two applications for personal bank loans.

Prosecutors had originally asked for six days of jail time, to be served on three consecutive weekends, while Brown’s lawyer had asked Leon to spare him any jail time at all. Judge Richard Leon somewhat split the difference, and also sentenced Brown to complete 480 hours of community service for his transgressions. Later today Brown will be sentenced for a separate misdemeanor campaign finance violation.

Brown is the second member of the D.C. Council to be sentenced for a crime this year. Former Ward 5 councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. was sentenced to 38 months in prison in May for having stolen $350,000 in city funds.