PITTSBURGH — Former Pittsburgh police chief Nathan Harper was released from federal prison Friday, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
An employee at the Pekin Federal Correction Institution in Pekin, Ill., confirmed to Channel 11's news exchange partners at TribLIVE that Harper was released, but said records did not show whether he went to a halfway house or home confinement.
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Harper was sentenced to 18 months at the minimum-security camp in February 2014 for conspiring to create an unauthorized slush fund, from which he spent more than $30,000 on himself.
He began serving his sentence on April 1, 2014, and is expected to be released to a halfway house months before the sentence is up for good behavior, according to TribLIVE.
Federal prison expert Larry Levine, president and founder of Los-Angeles based Wall Street Prison Consultants, told TribLIVE that Harper will likely have a career as a fast-food employee, telemarketer or custodian.
"I'm looking forward to him getting home and getting settled in. He's a good man, and whatever he did, God has forgiven him," Milton Raiford, the attorney who represents Harper, told TribLIVE.
Levine said Harper will likely have to live in under halfway house rules for two months, then will be on probation for a year afterward.
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