At the time, having these two charges guarheened a maximum federal prison sentence of 35 years; however, judge John F. Walter, when sentencing Bartiromo at the United States District Court for the Central District of California on June 14, reduced the penalty to 33 months of jail time and $20,000 restitution based on Bartiromo’s denouncements of his claims that the government tried to frame him and his father’s request for leniency.