Tom Lakin, the former Democratic powerbroker and legal heavyweight accused of hosting drug-fueled sex parties with minors, will spend more of his six-year federal prison sentence behind bars than expected, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

Lakin, who once headed the powerful Lakin Law Firm in Wood River, pleaded guilty in 2008 in federal court of possession with the intent to deliver cocaine, distributing cocaine to a person under 21 and maintaining a drug-involved premises.

In return for the plea, federal prosecutors dropped their sole sex-related charge that claimed Lakin took a minor to his second home in Malibu, Calif., with the intent of having oral sex.

Lakin was sentenced to six years in federal prison. His projected release date was Nov. 30, 2012, several years short of six years because of his participation in a special drug program. But the prison's website has now moved back his release date to Nov. 30, 2013, which would be in line with the full 85 percent of the prison sentence that federal prisoners must normally serve.

Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, said he can't comment on any specific inmate.  He said projected release dates can be changed for a variety of reasons.

Lakin pleaded no contest last year to a state charge of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, but was given no additional prison time beyond the federal prison term. 

Ed Unsell, a Madison County lawyer who is suing Lakin, saying he arranged for a 15-year-old boy to watch him have sex with women and then engaged him in a sex act, said the added state conviction made Lakin a sex offender, and would most likely disqualify him from the federal program that gave him an earlier release.

"When he was first sentenced, he was not a convicted sex offender," Unsell said.  "The Bureau of Prisons probably realized it and adjusted his release date." 

When Lakin pleaded no contest last October to the state sex charge, his defense attorney, Ben Allen, and the appellate prosecutor referred to it as a simple "housekeeping" matter. 

"They said it was housekeeping, but they left behind a lot of dirt," Unsell said.

Lakin continues to serve his sentence at a low-security federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.

Ross, the prison spokesman, said the drug program has strict guidelines, but wouldn't say if that's the reason why Lakin will spend more time in prison.