A fake attorney who once represented a murder suspect lied so much after he stepped out of prison on a supervised-release program that a federal judge sentenced him to another 2 years in prison.

And although federal Judge Christine Arguello said she typically places convicts on supervised release following prison, she said 62-year-old Howard Kieffer was the exception.

“I don’t think we’re going to fix Mr. Kieffer,” Arguello said Wednesday in U.S. District Court, just before she revoked his supervised release. “I don’t think he wants to change. I don’t believe he thinks he needs to change.”

Accused of 28 counts of violating his supervised release agreement, Kieffer admitted to seven. His probation officer had characterized Kieffer’s probation, which began on Dec. 30, 2016, as “lies, deception, fraud and more lies.”

For example, when Kieffer told his probation officer he sent money to a college professor in Minnesota, it turned out no professor by that name had ever taught at the college he mentioned. When he claimed a nurse gave him a bike found in his possession, it turned out that nurse didn’t exist either. And Kieffer not only violated supervised release conditions by associating with a convicted felon, he offered that criminal legal advice, according to court records.

“I don’t know. I think he likes to walk that line and see how long he can go stepping over that line,” Arguello said Wednesday.

Former Denver Post reporter Felisa Cardona wrote that Kieffer represented at least 16 clients in 10 federal jurisdictions around the U.S., mostly on post-conviction motions, all while not having a law degree.

Instead of a law diploma, he had a rap sheet. In the late 1980s and early ’90s, Kieffer spent four years in federal prison for filing false tax returns, records show. His rap sheet dating back to 1976 also included convictions for forgery, grand theft, possession of stolen mail, receiving stolen property, false claims against the U.S. and mail fraud, court records indicate.

Kieffer had represented Gwen Bergman, of Pitkin County, during her May 2008 murder-for-hire case in U.S. District Court in Denver, even though he was not a licensed attorney. Her family paid him $65,000 in legal fees. In July 2010, a jury in Denver U.S. District Court found Kieffer guilty of wire fraud, making false statements and contempt of court in connection to the Bergman case. Arguello sentenced him to serve 57 months in prison.