Wichita ? A former stockroom supervisor at Bombardier Aerospace was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison for defrauding his employer of more than $400,000 by submitting false contractor invoices, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Robert David Gulledge, 41, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Wesley E. Brown to repay the stolen money and serve an additional three years on supervised release after he gets out of prison.

U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren said in a news release that Gulledge received $426,637 for submitting invoices for services the company never received. At the time, he was working as a stockroom and warehouse supervisor at Bombardier.

Gulledge’s defense attorney, Christopher McHugh, said the sentence was the lowest allowable under federal law.

“Obviously he doesn’t want to go to prison, but getting the lowest sentence possible is something we are happy with,” McHugh said.

To date, Gulledge has repaid all but $145,000 of the money he stole, McHugh said, adding that the rest of the money was spent on cars, vacations and things for “living beyond your means.”

Gulledge pleaded guilty in August to one count of mail fraud. In his plea deal, he admitted that he was doing business as DK Property Maintenance when he sent four invoices in 2006 and 2007 to Bombardier.

The company paid the first three invoices: one on Nov. 3, 2006, for $225,500; another on Nov. 9, 2006, for $201,137; and the last one on Jan. 3, 2007, for $211,194. The company later stopped payment on the last check and declined to pay a fourth invoice for $158,396.

As part of his plea deal, Gulledge agreed to pay a forfeiture judgment of $426,637.