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Disbarred lawyer gets prison for fictional temp scheme (Tulsa World)

November 19, 2018

A disbarred lawyer was sentenced to federal prison last week in a scheme involving fictional temporary workers, Tulsa World reported. In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Harvey Joseph Stephens admitted to creating fictitious contract employees while working as a human resource manager at Sagebrush Pipeline Co. in Tulsa, Okla. He admitted directing paychecks to be issued from its staffing firm, Task Force Staffing LLC, to two fictitious employees that he created. Stephens was sentenced to serve a 27-month prison term and pay restitution totaling $352,115 to the two companies he defrauded and the IRS.