Brian Walse, the Cohasset man charged with murdering and dismembering his wife Ana Walshe on the first day of last year, was sentenced to 37 months in prison in an unrelated federal art fraud case.

“This court sentences to you 37 months on each of the counts of conviction. The sentences on each count to run concurrent with one another and concurrent with any state sentence, should any state sentence be eventually (imposed),” U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young said at a sentencing hearing in federal court in Boston’s Seaport Tuesday afternoon.

Walshe, 49, pleaded guilty to four charges in the federal art fraud case in federal court in Boston on April 1, 2021. The case involved his selling fake Andy Warhol paintings: two from the “Shadows” series of the late 1970s, Warhol’s “Dollar Sign” painting and other artworks.

“We are selling 2 Andy Warhol paintings from our private collection,” Walshe had written in an eBay listing for two fake paintings from Warhol’s “Shadows” series of the late 1970s. “We are parting with these pieces only because we need the money for renovations to our house. Our loss is your gain.”

The listing, which claimed the paintings had been authenticated as originals by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, was discovered in November 2016 by Ron Rivlin the owner of Revolver Gallery in West Hollywood, Calif., according to charging documents filed in the case.

The deal was attractive: Walshe had said that he paid $240,000 for the pair but was in need of money and would sell them short — just $100,000 for the pair. So Rivlin went for it and emailed Walshe, saying he would like to buy them off of the eBay platform to avoid the company’s transaction fees and was willing to pay $80,000.

Walshe met up with Rivlin’s assistant at the Bristol Lounge in Boston’s Four Seasons hotel that Nov. 7, the feds wrote in an affidavit to back up the charges. Walshe deposited the check into a business account that same day.

But when the paintings arrived in the gallery, they were obvious fakes and bore no stamp from the Authentication Board, as Walshe had claimed.

He was arrested on May 9, 2018, and pleaded guilty in April 2021.

Walshe’s wife Ana Walshe disappeared on Jan. 1, 2023. Brian Walshe at first appeared to be cooperating with police, even though he wasn’t the one to report his wife missing. Her employer in Washington, D.C. did. But it didn’t take long before Walshe was arrested and charged with misleading police and the image of him being led into a police car with a broad smile on his face soon appeared not only across Greater Boston but across national media.

He was charged with Ana Walshe’s murder just weeks later. The arraignment on those charges on Jan. 18, 2023, brought with it a recitation of chilling Google searches Walshe allegedly made from one of his sons’ iPads.

“Can you be charged with murder without a body?” Brian Walshe allegedly searched soon after his wife disappeared. Police came knocking at the Walshe door Jan. 4 for a well-being check.

Other alleged computer searches followed: “10 ways to dispose of a body if you really need to.” “Can you throw away body parts?” and “What does formaldehyde do?” according to court documents.

This is a developing story.

Murder suspect Brian Walshe of Cohasset is arraigned, Thursday April 27, 2023, in Dedham Superior Court in Dedham, Mass. for the death of his wife Anna who disappeared on New Years Day 2023. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen at her Cohasset home shortly after midnight. (Courtesy / Cohasset Police Department)