Scooter Libby went to prison for no reason at all excepting that he was a Republican!
That and his President abandoned him.
They jailed him for lying in an investigation. I don’t blame him because after all the grilling and testimony these people were out to find anything to hang him on, because there wasn’t anything REAL to hang him on. So they got him on a technicality from hours and hours of testimony spread over a long period of time.
This is something that is not an uncommon tactic. Essentially this is how they jailed Martha Stewart as well.