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WASHOUGAL, WA — Jeffrey Bivens, the tax attorney who aided in the illegal actions surrounding the 2007 sale of Longview, WA-based Charles Prescott Restoration, has finally been sentenced to prison, according to an article from the .

Bivens helped business owner Donald Chill provide inaccurate information to both the Small Business Administration and the local bank who provided a $2 million business loan in the sale of the business.

The three-month sentence from the district court comes despite a recommendation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for a 24-month sentence for Bivens.

Chill was sentenced in 2010 to four years in .

The U.S. Attorney’s office said, “This case and conduct should be a clarion call to attorneys and brokers, in Washington and elsewhere, that they must cut square corners when dealing with a federally insured financial institution.”