Libby faces 2.5 years in prison on his conviction of lying and obstructing the investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. The former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney is the highest-ranking White House official ordered to prison since the Iran-Contra affair, the AP reported.
Libby had hoped that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit would put that sentence on hold because he believed he had a good chance of overturning the conviction on appeal. The court unanimously rejected the request, the AP reported.
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not yet assigned Libby a prison or given him a date to surrender. But last week it designated him as federal inmate No. 28301-016, the AP reported.-New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants
