LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch Englander was sentenced Monday to a year and two months in federal prison for trying to obstruct an investigation into bribery allegations in City Hall politics.
The ex-councilman was also ordered to serve three years under supervised release following his prison term and pay a $15,000 fine.
Englander -- who represented Council District 12 in the San Fernando Valley from July 2011 until he abruptly resigned three years ago after investigators began asking questions about his activities -- was told to surrender June 1 to begin serving his sentence.
U.S. District Judge John F. Walter said "greed and arrogance" appeared to be the motivation for lying to the FBI repeatedly on three separate occasions and that Englander, 50, had damaged "the public's trust in government."