The gun-toting former Miramar commissioner convicted on corruption charges in April will be spending the next four years and three months behind bars.
Fitzroy Salesman was given the sentence Thursday morning, which includes three years of supervised release, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
The 53-year-old was facing as much as 10 years behind bars for bribery and extortion after an FBI sting caught him taking bribes for political favors.
Salesman was caught taking cash payments in exchange for giving city construction projects to men he thought were contractors, but who ultimately turned out to be federal agents.
His lawyer said he plans to appeal the convictions, and requested Salesman serve out his sentence at a minimum security prison in Miami-Dade.
Salesman had been sitting in a Broward County jail for the past three months after he was declared a flight risk or possible danger to the community.
The embattled pol had just finished serving a 30-day jail sentence for pulling a gun on a teen during a heated argument in a Winn-Dixie in 2007 when he was nabbed in the FBI sting.
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Salesman, who had seemed to develop a knack for avoiding hard time, beat the felony charge of aggravated assault with a firearm.
Salesman was also nabbed for disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer in a 1998 incident in a Miami bar, though he escaped prosecution. In 2005, he was busted for a DUI and felony fleeing and eluding the police, but a jury acquitted him.
Salesman was one of three Broward politicians arrested and charged in the FBI sting last September, which included former school board member Beverly Gallagher and former county commissioner Josephus Eggelletion.
Gallagher pled guilty to similar charges in March, and was sentenced to 37 months in June. Eggelletion was sentenced to 2 1/2 years behind bars after he plead guilty to money laundering conspiracy and tax charges.
