By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The former Manhattan borough president and a one-time state Assemblyman Andrew Stein was sentenced to 500 hours of community service on Tuesday for failing to pay more than $1 million in federal taxes.
Stein, 66, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor tax offense on Dec. 1.
He was ordered on Tuesday to file accurate tax returns and to pay the back taxes he owed immediately.
"I am 100 percent wrong and 100 percent sorry," Stein told U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Ronald Ellis last year when entering his guilty plea.
He admitted to failing to pay more than $1 million to the government by April 15, 2009. He said he "stupidly" ignored his tax obligations that year.
He faced up to one year in jail when he headed into his sentencing on Tuesday.
Stein was arrested in May 2010 along with celebrity financier Kenneth Starr after a federal probe into Stein's tax situation led to information about Starr. The two sets of allegations were not related, however.
Starr pleaded guilty in connection to a $30 million Ponzi scheme and was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in federal prison on March 2.
