If you recall, Apollo Nida of The Real Housewives of Atlanta entered a guilty plea back in May (click HERE if you missed that) and we even touched on the situation during our extended one-on-one interview last month.

[READ: One on One with Apollo Nida (Part 1) (Part 2)]

Welp… the judge has ruled and Apollo has finally been sentenced in his bank fraud case. *sigh*

Details below…

According to TMZ:

Apollo Nida just got an enormous break for singing like a canary … he got 1/4 the maximum sentence for a massive money fraud scheme.

Nida — who appears on “Real Housewives of Atlanta” with wife Phaedra Parks — was just sentenced to 8 years in federal prison for cashing stolen checks and laundering more than $2.3 mil through phony bank accounts.

The judge who sentenced him today in a Georgia court said Nida did indeed cooperate with federal investigators by spilling criminal secrets … and that’s why he got leniency.

Nida could have been sentenced to 30 years, so 8 years is a big victory.

It’s all relative folks.

What do you think of Apollo’s 8 year sentence?

Was justice served?