Jefferson City lawyer James D. "Doug" Barding will spend one month in federal prison for his role in two marriage fraud cases.
U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough ordered the prison time - plus a one-year supervised probation and a $3,000 fine - during the last of three sentencing hearings in the Jefferson City federal courthouse.
"It appears that (you) were a leader in this conspiracy," Bough told Barding and his attorney, Chris Slusher of Columbia.
Bough also ordered three years probation for:
• Patricia Anne Ewalt, 63, El Paso, Texas, and a former Jefferson City resident who married Oleksandr Nikolayevich Druzenko, now 35 and a Ukrainian national, in June 2007.
• Darya Chernova, now 41 - another Ukrainian national who once attended and played tennis for Lincoln University but now lives in Chandler, Arizona - and was Barding's mistress. She and Barding had two daughters together.
Chernova married Tim Dunville - a former Helias High School band teacher who never was charged in the marriage cases, but is mentioned in some of the court documents - in Cape Girardeau County in March 2005.
Last November, Bough sentenced Druzenko to two years probation, noting that would place Druzenko under the judge's control "If you come back to this country. .... I strongly urge you not to return."
Druzenko since has returned to the Ukraine.