African-American, Larry B. Seabrook, a pillar of Bronx politics whose nearly three-decade tenure included stints as an assemblyman, state senator and city councilman, has been sentenced to five years in prison in a corruption case by a federal judge for betraying the public trust

Seabrook, 61, was also ordered to pay $620,000 in restitution to New York City. Seabrook automatically lost his City Council seat in July 2012 after he was convicted of orchestrating a broad scheme to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in city money to friends, relatives and a girlfriend through a network of nonprofit groups he controlled.