Ex-Lawyer Who Lied to Lenders in Maxim Deal Gets Jail
- Prosecutors asked for stiff sentence after fraud conviction
- Scheme to buy magazine included fake e-mail, stolen money
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A former lawyer at Bryan Cave LLP was sentenced to six months in prison for lying to lenders as part of a failed scheme to buy Maxim Magazine through impersonation, a false e-mail and stolen money.
Prosecutors in New York said Harvey Newkirk, 39, deserved a “significant term of imprisonment,” describing him as “a facile liar lacking shame, remorse or sympathy for his many victims.” Defense lawyers sought probation, saying he was a “precocious only child born into a family of God” who lost his job and suffered from the shame of a criminal conviction.