Maureen McDonnell has been sentenced to one year and one day in a federal prison.

If you need to be filled in on the McDonnell scandal, let this informative animation help.

The 14-count indictment includes charges of wire fraud, false statements and obstruction of official proceeding.

With much of the world transfixed on some tyrannical British infant, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell used the distraction to do a bit of a mea culpa over a donor scandal that continues to swirl around his administration.