Two former law partners have each been sentenced to a year in federal prison for defrauding their Kansas City, Missouri-based health system client of more than $1.2 million.

One of the partners, Mark J. Schultz, also was ordered to pay more than $400,000 in restitution when he was sentenced earlier this month in federal court after pleading guilty to wire fraud and mail fraud conspiracy. He had faced a maximum sentence of five years. His former partner, Alan B. Gallas, pleaded guilty to federal charges of mail fraud in U.S. district court in Kansas City last year and was sentenced in February. His restitution amount tops $1.2 million. The two men were partners in the law firm of Gallas & Schultz, also in Kansas City.

According to court documents, the lawyers, who represented Saint Luke's Health System, were retained to collect larger outstanding patient accounts and deposit those payments into a collection trust account. From 2009 to 2015, however, about $1.25 million in payments due the hospital were either improperly retained by Gallas & Schultz or transferred from the trust account to the firm's operating accounts.