A Canoga Park man was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to five years probation and ordered to pay more than $11,000 in restitution for defrauding businesses into buying overpriced office supplies.
Brian Alan Hale, 43, had pleaded guilty in February, 1991, to one count of mail fraud in connection with the illegal scheme to sell supplies through a Sherman Oaks-based telemarketing business, National Industries of America, according to Assistant U.S. Atty. Harriet M. Rolnick.
