Drexel Aide Sentenced to 10 Months

A former Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. trading assistant was sentenced today to 10 months in prison for lying to the government during its investigation of the Wall Street firm.

The punishment was eight months less than Lisa Jones received at her original sentencing last year. That term was thrown out by a federal appeals court that said the sentence was longer than prescribed by federal sentencing guidelines.

U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand also ordered the one-time teen-age runaway who climbed to a $100,000-a-year job at Drexel to pay $25,000 in fines plus the cost of her incarceration.

Jones, 27, was convicted by a federal jury in 1989 on seven counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.