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Pamela Porter pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of laundering the proceeds of crime and was sentenced to 33 months for her role in an alleged bribery scandal connected to a superhospital project.

With time already served, Porter has two years less a day to go in a sentence that was agreed to by the Crown and defence.

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She was also put on one year’s probation.

A lawyer with the Quebec government’s proceeds-of-crime unit said the court also seized about $5.5 million worth of assets related to her crimes.

One of the charges against her was related to helping launder money from an alleged fraud of $22.5 million in the $1.3-billion superhospital project in Montreal.

The other charge involved allegations she used some of that money to secure her bail in 2013.

A charge of conspiracy was dropped.

Porter, 54, is one of several people charged in the fraud and bribery case related to the superhospital contract. She is the first to plead guilty.