[1][2][3][4] Rudy pleaded guilty on March 31, 2006, was sentenced on April 20, 2012, and served 5 months with 3 years probation, ordered to repay $100,000 and fined $5,000.
He worked on Capitol Hill for eight years, first for California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, before leaving to attend law school.
He would later win the 2nd Year Student Moot Court Championship, which was a type of law school debate competition between various two-member teams.
In October 2005, the Washington Post reported that Rudy, while on DeLay's staff, helped scuttle a bill opposed by eLottery Inc., an Abramoff client, and that Abramoff had eLottery pay Toward Tradition to hire Liberty Consulting," Susan Schmidt and James Grimaldi, reported in the November 26, 2005, Washington Post.
[1] On November 17, 2006, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board revoked Rudy's license to practice law.