A federal judge sentenced former Schofield Barracks Master Sgt. Ronald Joseph Radcliffe yesterday to 40 months in prison for accepting thousands of dollars in kickbacks from civilian contractors in Iraq.

He remains free on bond; he is required to turn himself in to begin serving his prison term on May 5.

The judge also ordered Radcliffe to pay a $30,000 fine.

Radcliffe was assigned to Schofield's 2nd Brigade as the noncommissioned officer of supply in Kirkuk from January 2004 to February 2005.

He pleaded guilty to accepting $37,659 in bribes to steer contracts to civilian companies and conspiring to launder the money through his girlfriend in Hawaii.

The government placed liens on a car and motorcycle Radcliffe bought in 2005 and seized about $4,000 from him after it found out about the kickbacks.

Radcliffe retired from the Army after 22 years of service before a grand jury in Honolulu indicted him last year for bribery, money laundering and other charges.

He later got a job with defense contractor KBR in Afghanistan, performing the same job he did for the Army in Iraq. KBR fired him after he was indicted, and he has been unemployed since last October, his lawyer said.