The former Mount Vernon, New York, corporation counsel has been sentenced to one to three years in prison for diverting more than $300,000 from the city’s public water funds to pay defense lawyers for the city’s then-mayor who was facing campaign-related theft charges.

Lawrence Porcari, once the top lawyer for the Westchester County town located just above the Bronx, received the minimum sentence allowable for his 2019 convictions for first-degree corrupting government, second-degree grand larceny, filing false statements and defrauding government, according to a news release from state Attorney General Letitia James and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and to news reports. He had been facing a maximum sentence of 8⅓ to 25 years on the grand larceny and corruption charges, according to a report on lohud.com, the website for The Journal News.