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Obey artist and designer Shepard Fairey was sentenced to two years probation and 300 hours community service on Friday after pleading guilty to evidence tampering.

The whole saga began when Fairey brought a federal lawsuit against The Associated Press over the use of their images for his posters – most notably, the now iconic Obama Hope/Progress pieces. In the subsequent lawsuit brought against the artist by the Southern District of New York, the court found Fairey had both destroyed documents and created false ones to prove that he did not use the AP photographer’s images in 2008.

“My wrong-headed actions, born out of a moment of fear and embarrassment, have not only been financially and psychologically costly to myself and my family, but also helped to obscure what I was fighting for in the first place  – the ability of artists everywhere to be inspired and freely create art without reprisal,” Fairey said in a written statement.

Fairey was also ordered to pay an additional $25000 in fines, on top of the $1.6 million he already had to pay to AP in the original case’s settlement last year.

Read Fairey’s full statement over at obeygiant.com.