PORTLAND — A Brunswick man was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $500,000 in restitution for defrauding Wright Express LLC and L.L. Bean, and evading income taxes.

The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Matthew J. LaForge, 38, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen. He pleaded guilty Aug. 7 to two counts of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion.

In addition to the prison term and restitution of $530,129.95, he is to serve three years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Court records reveal that LaForge defrauded Wright Express and L. L. Bean, two former employers, by use of a mail fraud scheme. During 2006-2008, while employed by Wright Express as a business analyst, LaForge prepared and submitted invoices for marketing services totaling around $230,000, using the name of a fictitious company and directing payments be sent to a mailbox address that he had opened in N.H.

After leaving Wright Express and going to work at L.L. Bean as a financial analyst, LaForge reinstituted the scheme in 2009 and over the next two years billed that company around $220,000 in the same fashion, court records state.

When the scheme was uncovered by L.L. Bean in 2011, LaForge admitted to his prior fraud at Wright Express, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

LaForge also failed to report any of the illicit income on his federal income tax returns for the years 2006-2010, resulting in more than $89,000 in unpaid taxes.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division.