Gerald Munson, the former chief of the Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department, and member of a family involved in the village fire services for nearly a century, on Wednesday was sentenced to as much as four and a half years in state prison for stealing $313,000 from the department.
Westchester County Court Judge Larry Schwartz handed down the sentence two months after Munson pleaded guilty to grand larceny as a crime of public corruption.
The court has ordered Munson, also a former member of the Croton-on-Hudson Police Department, to pay restitution of $298,383. He has paid half, with an order to pay the remaining $149,383.