Oklahoma trucking service agent gets 15-year suspended term

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A trucking service agent receives a 15-year suspended prison sentence for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme involving the Oklahoma Tax Commission. <br/><br/>Byron Edward McFall

Tuesday, April 25th 2006, 5:52 am

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A trucking service agent receives a 15-year suspended prison sentence for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme involving the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

Byron Edward McFall Junior also was ordered to pay $47,538 dollars in restitution, as well as court costs Monday.

Attorney General Drew Edmondson says the multicounty grand jury indicted McFall twice in the case. He pleaded guilty in December to one count each of conspiracy against the state, falsification of public records and bribery.

He received five-year suspended sentences on each count.

Prosecutors accused the former owner of Transport Services Link of conspiring to defraud the state of trucking registration fees by filing false documents with the Tax Commission. He also allegedly bribed a Tax Commission field auditor to produce fake truck registration bills.

McFall pleaded guilty in 2004 to one count of conspiracy against the state and was given a five-year deferred term.