Topeka ? Former Mayor Doug S. Wright faces a year in jail and must surrender his law license after pleading guilty Tuesday to multiple counts of theft.

In February authorities filed 43 counts of theft of more than $500 against Wright, who was charged with writing 43 checks, totaling more than $86,000, from his elderly great-aunt’s bank account.

That same month Wright was charged with three counts of theft for allegedly stealing $3,000 from the Topeka Lawyers Club, for which he was secretary-treasurer.

Last month, Wright, 54, was charged with committing perjury before the Disciplinary Administrative Board and stealing more than $28,000 from another bank account belonging to his great-aunt. Prosecutors contend he took the $28,000 to pay his great-aunt restitution for the theft of the $86,000 in February.

Wright testified before the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys that he had paid more than $59,000 in restitution to his great-aunt to repay her for the $86,000.

The Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office and Wright have agreed to a standard sentence of 12 months incarceration without eligibility for probation or any release program, other than standard opportunity to earn good-time credit, Shawnee County Dist. Atty. Robert D. Hecht said.

In addition, Wright must surrender his law license as part of the agreement, Hecht said.

The sentences will run concurrently for the theft from the lawyers’ club and the perjury case. However, the sentence will run back-to-back to the first case of theft, stemming from the original 43 charges filed in February.