Schuylkill County Commissioners agreed to a settlement agreement with Stephen Lukach Jr. to give him $13,410.84.

The money represents pension payments and other amounts including interest, supplemental health insurance premiums, prescription payments he would have received had the county not stopped them March 9, 2019, when the plea agreement was filed in court.

The county should have continued the payments until Aug. 9, 2019, the date of his guilty plea.

However, Lukach, 71, will not see a penny of the money since it is going to U.S. District Court to pay his restitution.

A judgment entered Oct. 20, 2020, shows that Lukach pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and falsification of records. He was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment, two years of supervised release, a special assessment of $200 and restitution of $15,927.24 to the U.S. District Court that in turn goes to the county.

He was to start serving his sentence Nov. 17, 2020.

Lukach, a Democrat, was the Clerk of Courts for 27 years.

A federal grand jury indicted Lukach on July 18, 2018, on 21 counts that included mail and wire fraud and falsification of records. The investigation started when former Schuylkill County Controller Christy Joy’s office conducted an audit of the office. Lukach resigned in 2014.

A Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator lists Lukach as being at the Philadelphia RRM, which stands for Residential Reentry Management. A release date of Oct. 17, 2022, is shown. There are 22 reentry field offices nationwide.

According to BOP.gov, the RRMs administer “contracts for community-based programs and serve as the Federal Bureau of Prisons local liaison with the federal courts, the U.S. Marshals Service, state and local corrections and a variety of community groups within their specific judicial districts.”

They also monitor local residential reentry centers.