Thomas Early, a former finance director at Ogilvy & Mather's New York office, will spend 14 months in prison and pay a $10,000 fine for his part in defrauding the government on the national anti-drug account, Ad Age reports. Early said: "It was clearly my responsibility to know what was happening."

Co-worker Shona Seifert, once an executive group director at Ogilvy, who was also convicted of a role in the 1999 scheme to inflate the hours the agency worked for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow. Three other ex-Ogilvy employees still face sentencing.

In 2002, Ogilvy paid $1.8 million to settle civil charges against the unlawful billing practices.