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The former executive director of a Los Angeles charter school operator was sentenced to three years of probation Wednesday in federal court.

Janis Bucknor, 53, was also ordered to pay about $2.5 million in restitution, said Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.