NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A businessman was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for a plot in which he fraudulently billed BP for roughly $1.4 million for use of a helicopter after the company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Bay Ingram, who owned Southeast Recovery Group, had faced a maximum of five years in prison following his guilty plea last year to a conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance imposed his prison sentence and also ordered the Covington man to pay a total of $463,271 in restitution to BP and Rotorcraft Leasing Company, which provided Ingram with the helicopter and its crew.