AKRON, Ohio — A real estate executive whose link to the new VA Butler Healthcare center preceded a stop in construction was sentenced Tuesday to serve more than six years in prison and pay $304,669 in restitution.

Robert J. Berryhill, 51, of Aurora, Ohio, previously pleaded guilty to fraud charges relating to his former employment, when he reportedly used fake invoices by fake companies to divert money from construction projects — namely the construction of FBI buildings in Tennessee and Indianapolis — for his personal use. That abuse included the restoration of Berryhill’s vintage Corvette sports car.

Berryhill at one point reportedly posed as an FBI employee to further the fraud.

In U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Ohio, Berryhill pleaded guilty to nine charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft and impersonating an officer of the United States. On Thursday, he was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi to 75 months in prison.

At the time of these crimes in 2007 and 2009, Berryhill, father of six children, was employed by Carnegie Management and Development in Ohio. He is described in court documents as a bishop at his church and on the executive board of the Boy Scouts.

Earlier this year, Berryhill was senior vice president of Westar Development, the company developing the new VA Butler Healthcare center in Butler Township.

Berryhill was fired by Westar a day before ground breaking of the $74 million facility.

Although none of the allegations in the indictment against Berryhill are related to Westar or the Butler veterans facility, the Department of Veteran’s Affairs stopped work there until an investigation into Westar, now using the subsidiary VA Butler Partners Company of Cleveland, is complete.

Officials have refused to say exactly what is being investigated or how long it will take.

The new facility to be located at the 21-acre Deshon Woods just south of the current VA facility is to be 168,000-square-feet and three stories high. Officials have said it will more efficiently provide outpatient services, including primary care, specialty care, mental health, dental, diagnostic, laboratory, pathology, radiology, podiatry, optometry, pharmacy, physical rehabilitation and women’s health.

Once completed, the facility was to be leased by the VA from the developer for $7.6 million annually. Initially, the facility was to open in 2015. Officials have not said if the stop work order would impact that date.