The Los Angeles deputy mayor whose job overseeing the fire department was left empty prior to the deadly Palisades wildfire — because he’d been suspended for calling in a phony bomb threat — was sentenced this week to only a year’s probation and a $5000 fine.

Former Deputy Mayor Brian K. Williams, who oversaw both the fire and police departments for the city, was sentenced on Monday after pleading guilty in June to faking an anti-Israel bomb threat on City Hall last October.

Federal prosecutors, citing Williams’ lack of a criminal record and years of public service, had recommended two years of probation, saying the deputy mayor made the threat because he was “overwhelmed with stress and anxiety and desperate to get out of an ongoing meeting.”

Williams’ lawyer Dmitry Gorin, in his cli

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