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Mr. Seabrook, 61, was also ordered to pay $620,000 in restitution to the City of New York.

He was convicted in July 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 that prosecutors said he controlled.

Although he faced a maximum sentence of 20 years on each of the nine counts that he was convicted of, Mr. Seabrook's lawyers had asked that he be allowed to avoid prison. Prosecutors had asked that the judge, Deborah A. Batts of Federal District Court in Manhattan, impose a sentence of at least 7¼ years. Mr. Seabrook was allowed to surrender at a later date.

Mr. Seabrook's first trial ended in a mistrial in late 2011 after a jury said it had deadlocked and could not reach a verdict. In a retrial, which lasted just over a month, he was convicted on 9 of 12 counts, including mail and wire fraud.

With his conviction, Mr. Seabrook automatically lost his seat on the City Council, which has since been filled by a community activist, Andy King Jr., who was elected in November.