Former Democratic Party chairman in Kentucky and a close friend of former President Bill Clinton has been ordered to prison by a federal judge after losing his appeal.

Jerry Lundergan must report to prison next month on campaign finance charges, U.S. District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove ruled.

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Lundergan was ordered to report to prison on Nov. 30 after the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 74-year-old’s conviction and rejected a motion to suspend the judgment, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported Wednesday.

He was allowed to remain free while appealing. Now that it has failed, he’s heading to jail.

A jury convicted Lundergan and political consultant Dale Emmons in September 2019 of conspiring to illegally contribute more than $200,000 from one of Lundergan’s companies to the 2014 U.S. Senate campaign of his daughter.

Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky secretary of state from 2012 to 2020, lost the race to Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell.

Van Tatenhove sentenced Lundergan in July 2020 to spend 21 months in prison and to pay a $150,000 fine.

“This is the second time he has been convicted of a felony related to his political influence. In 1989, a jury found him guilty of ‘improperly using his influence to gain a state contract’ after his catering company secured more than $100,000 of contract work at state events while he was a representative,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. “Lundergan resigned his seat following the conviction, but an appeals court later ruled his charges a misdemeanor.”

“A well-connected political figure, Lundergan counted former president Bill Clinton as a close friend,” the Free Beacon reported. “Clinton wrote a letter of support to the court before Lundergan’s conviction that called the former party chairman ‘a good man with a big heart who has made a positive difference in countless lives, including my own.’ Lundergan also served as the state chair for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.”

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The businessman and former state representative’s attorney, J. Guthrie True, told the Herald-Leader his client will report to prison next month but will also continue his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A court document shows that if the high court accepts his case, Lundergan will argue that applying the ban on corporate communications to him violated his First Amendment rights because he contributed to a close family member.

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The Associated Press contributed to this article