A Staten Island man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for loan sharking, extortion and arson conspiracy.

Thirty-three-year-old James LaForte Jr. was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Trenton.

Prosecutors say he was part of a ring that made high-interest loans to debtors and used violence to collect from those who failed to make timely payments.

He also admitted to ordering an accomplice to torch the car of a former employee of his real estate title company.

The sentence imposed Monday is to run concurrently with time LaForte is serving on New York state charges.