A man who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $110,000 from the labor union he once led was sentenced Friday to five years probation and ordered to pay restitution to the union.

“You are going to pay every penny of this money back,” U.S. District Judget Thomas M. Rose told Claude Huff, the former president and business agent of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1385.

The local represents more than 600 Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority drivers and employees.

“I realize how wrong I was,” Huff tearfully apologized during the hearing. “I am extremely ashamed and remorseful.”

Huff pleaded guilty Sept. 4 to a single count of embezzlement and theft of labor union assets, an offense with a maximum penalty of five years in prison. As part of the plea agreement reached between assistant U.S. Attorney Dwight Keller and Richard Skelton, Huff’s attorney, Huff would be placed on five-year sentence of probation and ordered to pay an amount of restitution capped at just more than $110,000.

Huff, 65, has no criminal history, Rose noted during the hearing and was eligible for probation. But he also said that he had abused his position of public trust.

“This local trusted you,” Rose said. “You’re not taking from strangers, you’re taking from your people. There’s no excuse for that.”

Rose asked numerous questions of Huff, demanding to know how he could trust Huff in the future. Huff insisted that he had learned from the experience.

“You’re on a short leash,” Rose told him.

U.S. Department of Labor investigators raided the Local’s Heid Avenue offices in January 2011. Huff resigned the presidency of the local in November 2010, shortly before the national union was to conduct a hearing into allegations that Huff overpaid himself from union funds.