BOSTON —

Former Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson is out of prison after completing a one-month sentence.

Fernandes Anderson was arrested at her Dorchester home in December on federal fraud and theft charges in connection with the kickback scheme.

She pleaded guilty in May to securing a $13,000 bonus for a staff member and then taking an envelope with $7,000 in cash from that staff member in a city hall bathroom, and she relinquished her seat on the council.

Her defense attorney has argued that Fernandes Anderson was a caring public servant who "did not fully appreciate her role as a public steward."

In their sentencing memorandum, prosecutors said their request of a year and a day in prison was justified by what they wrote was her "pattern of greed, deceit, and abuse o

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