Yes he did time for it. I heard him talk about it. His “crime” was he gave a friend 25K to help her run for Congress, not knowing it exceeded legal amounts. He never asked for any favors and she was never elected. Most people would get a fine, but for some mysterious reason he got prison time. Originally he was supposed to be sent to a Club Fed type prison, but at the last minute the judge changed it to a year in a holding center. He thought that was a break, but in reality it meant he was spending his time with drug dealers and bank robbers instead of white collar criminals.
He said when he was there he expected everyone to say they were innocent but they all admitted to being guilty. They told him “We are the stupid criminals. The politicians are the smart criminals. They know how to get away with it”. He said it was a real education he couldn’t have gotten anywhere else, and he wrote a book, “Stealing America” about how the pols are doing just that.
http://www.stealingamericathebook.com/
I’m glad to hear that Dinesh made it through prison time without being seriously beaten or harassed. The guards can’t be everywhere in such places.