BANKING

Former Westwood S&L; Chief Sentenced: Edward M. Israel received an 18-month federal prison sentence for defrauding Westwood Savings & Loan, where he was chairman and chief executive. Israel, 40, pleaded guilty last summer to three counts of fraud stemming from a scheme in which he and former Brookside Savings & Loan Chairman Michael S. Moers, who is also serving a prison sentence, secretly sold real estate in which they were partners to their respective S&Ls.; Israel has also agreed to pay $6 million in restitution. Both Westwood and Brookside collapsed and were seized by thrift regulators.