A retired Navy commander was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for faking an injury in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon so he could steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal victims compensation fund. Cmdr. Charles Coughlin, 52, of Severna Park, did not react when the sentence was announced Monday in Washington, according to the Associated Press. When asked by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth if he had anything to say before the verdict, Coughlin responded, “I take full responsibility for the errors and mistakes I made.”

U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr. called the prison sentence a “just punishment” for Coughlin.