A Brunswick man faces two years in prison and must pay more than a half million dollars in restitution after being sentenced Tuesday on two counts of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion.

The United States Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that Matthew J. LaForge, 28, of Brunswick, pleaded guilty to the charges in U.S. District Court on Aug. 7.

Judge Nancy Torresen ordered LaForge to pay $510,129.95 in restitution and serve two years in prison.

Court records reveal that LaForge defrauded Wright Express and L.L. Bean, two former employers, by use of a mail fraud scheme.

While employed by Wright Express as a business analyst from 2006 to 2008, LaForge prepared and submitted invoices to Wright Express for marketing services totaling around $230,000, using the name of a fictitious company and directing payments be sent to a mailbox address he had opened in New Hampshire.

After leaving Wright Express in 2008 and going to work at L.L. Bean as a financial analyst, LaForge reinstituted the scheme in 2009. Over the next two years, court records say he billed that company $220,000.

When the scheme was uncovered by L.L. Bean in 2011, LaForge admitted to his prior fraud at Wright Express.

LaForge also failed to report any of the illicit income on his federal income tax returns for the years 2006 through 2010, resulting in over $89,000 in unpaid income taxes.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service- Criminal Investigation Division.