BOSTON —

A former Massachusetts State Police sergeant has been sentenced to six years in prison by a federal judge for orchestrating a commercial driver's license bribery scandal that gave passing scores to certain applicants even if they failed the CDL test.

In addition to the six-year prison sentence, Gary Cederquist, 60, of Stoughton, was also ordered to pay a fine of $30,000, restitution in the amount of $18,300, and a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $18,300, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts.

Cederquist's prison sentence will be followed by two years of supervised release.

He was convicted of two counts of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of extortion, six counts of honest services mail fraud, three counts of conspiracy to falsi

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