CLEVELAND, Ohio — Disgraced former Cleveland City Councilman Ken Johnson was released from prison on Friday, officials said.

Johnson , 79, served more than four years of a six-year prison sentence for orchestrating schemes in which he stole from the city and federal government while representing the Buckeye-Shaker Square neighborhood on council.

U.S. Bureau of Prisons spokesman Donald Murphy confirmed Johnson’s prison release. A message left with Johnson’s attorney, Myron Watson, was not immediately returned.

Federal prisoners often are released early, depending on their crimes and their behavior in prison.

Johnson served time at the federal prison in Morgantown, West Virginia, and in recent weeks was housed at a residential re-entry facility in Cincinnati, according to Bureau of Pr

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