Czernek read from a written statement in court.
"I make no excuses for my conduct," he said. "My crime was not a mistake, it was something that I did to enrich myself."
A former Bloomingdale, Illinois highway commission official was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for receiving kickbacks.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly credited Czernek for taking a plea deal from prosecutors and testifying at Giannini’s 2021 trial.
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Giannini is appealing his May conviction on 14 counts of wire fraud. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Kennelly last March dismissed a wire fraud charge against Fazio, saying prosecutors had not proven she knew of the scheme or participated in it.
Czernek and Giannini will have to pay more than $500,000 restitution to the township.