His lawyers fought for and won three delays in his imprisonment due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but their plea for another delay went nowhere after prosecutors objected to it.

Chris Collins leaving a federal courthouse in New York City after his arrest in August 2018. (Jefferson Siegel/Special to The ...

Former Congressman Chris Collins, R-NY, has been sentenced to 26 months in prison after pleading guilty to insider trading charges. Collins appeared before United States District Judge Vernon ...

Instead of another delay, the Collins legal team also suggested an alternative – "time-served plus a period of supervised ...

"The public has an interest in seeing justice done in this case without further delay," wrote Audrey Strauss, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.