An asphalt industry executive from Bloomfield Hills was sentenced to six months in federal prison Wednesday following a prosecution of bid-rigging and corruption within Michigan’s asphalt paving industry.

Bruce Israel, 60, former vice-president of Pontiac-based Asphalt Specialists LLC, known as ASI, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge Gershwin Drain to pay a $500,000 fine.

Israel is among seven people convicted of crimes in a rare antitrust prosecution targeting the asphalt paving industry in a state with some of the nation’s worst roads. He was punished one month after his brother, the co-founder and former majority owner of ASI, Birmingham resident Dan Israel, was sentenced to six months and ordered to pay a $500,000 fine.

During the broader prosecution, the government has secured more than $8.7 million in criminal fines.

Prosecutors wanted Bruce Israel to spend 30 months in prison. His lawyer, Steve Fishman, requested home confinement, citing a host of serious medical problems.

“It’s a dangerous sentence, given Mr. Israel’s serious medical problems,” Fishman told The Detroit News on Wednesday.

Bruce Israel was sentenced 17 months after pleading guilty to two counts of conspiracy to restrain trade, each a felony punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison.

“Bid rigging is cheating, plain and simple,” Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said in a statement. “By their own admissions, the defendant and his co-conspirators cheated their customers and betrayed the basic notions of free and fair competition, all to benefit themselves.”

Fishman noted restitution was not requested by the government or the court.

“The notion that Mr. Israel or anyone else cheated their customers is a lie,” Fishman said. “In fact, there were no victims because the customers were generally the ones who requested the bids to be rigged in the first place.”