A Queens attorney was arrested Monday and charged with making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Prisons after an investigation uncovered an alleged plot to get a jailed drug dealer’s sentence reduced, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue’s office announced.

According to prosecutors, Scott Brettschneider and two associates worked to help Brettschneider’s client, Richard Marshall, enter a federal substance abuse rehab program in the hopes of reducing a 36-month sentence for drug dealing issued in August 2014.

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