A Hollywood producer who founded and ran various television production and distribution companies was sentenced last week to 66 months in federal prison for crimes committed in two cases — one involving stock fraud and another stemming from a scam that bilked an investor in one of the companies.

Drew Savitch Levin, 59, of Pacific Palisades, was ordered to pay $2,272,588 in restitution to 13 victims in the United States, France, Austria, England and Switzerland.

“It is a picture of Mr. Levin being essentially completely out of control and using his charm and sizable intellect to lie to people and take their money, and continue to feed that engine of whatever it was that he thought he was going to be able to accomplish,” Judge Dean Pregerson said as he read statements submitted by the victims. “And maybe in his mind he felt that it would all come out fine in the end, but it was a scorched earth strategy, and that’s clear. And when you read the letters about the promises that were made once notes were due … those are lies, clearly. And you see that time and time again.”

Levin pleaded guilty in September 2011 in one case to conspiring to inflate the revenue and stock price of Team Communications Group Inc., a West Los Angeles-based company that Levin founded and for which he served as CEO until early 2001.

After being forced out of Team by the company’s board of directors, Levin went on to run other TV production companies. In the second case, Levin pleaded guilty to wire fraud and admitted he bilked a French investor, who put 80,000 Euros into a Levin-run company in 2008.

Levin was initially charged in the Team Communications case in March 2008. He was free on bond until September 2010, when he was arrested for violating the terms of his release by committing the new fraud against the French investor. Levin was re-released on bond in November 2010, but he was incarcerated again in March 2011 for again violating the conditions of his bond.