Enforcement

Criminal Press Releases - 2010

This is a list that provides links to case summaries or press releases announcing results of EPA criminal cases adjudicated in U.S. courts. This is a sortable table and can be viewed by date or alphabetically under all other headings.

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Month/Day	Defendant	State	Violation	Related Media	Case Status	Press Release

12/23	Southern Union Company	RI	• Illegally storing mercury for several years	Waste	Conviction and Sentencing Upheld	Case Summary including Press Release
12/21	Saverio Todara SAF Environmental	NY	• Five counts of false statements • Three counts of mail fraud • Three counts of violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act	Lead Asbestos	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
12/17	Paul S. McConnell Donna McConnell James F. Renshaw	ID	• Discharge of a Pollutant • Unlawful Taking of a Threatened Species	Water Endangered Species	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
12/14	Andrew A. Costa	UT	• One count of disposing of hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
12/02	Rogelio Lowe	CA	• Two counts mail fraud	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
12/02	Atlas Ship Management	FL	• Making false statements • Knowingly failing to accurately maintain an Oil Record Book	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
12/01	Confluence Consulting	MT	• Negligent discharge of pollutants	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
11/30	Oak Mill	MO	• Illegally discharging pollutants into the city's wastewater treatment system	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
11/15	Keith Gordon-Smith	NY	• Eight counts of knowing violations of asbestos work practice standards	Air	Conviction	Case Summary including Press Release
11/10	Davis Wire Corporation	CA	• One count of negligent discharge of acidic pollutants into a publically owned treatment works	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary EPA Press Release
10/19	William Ringler	OH	• Unpermitted discharge	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
10/15	Leroy Hill	IL	• Permit violations	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
10/13	Wolfgang "Tito" Roempke	WA	• Failing to Properly Remove Asbestos	Air	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
10/13	Certified Environmental Services, Inc. (CES) Nicole Copeland Elisa Dunn	NY	• Conspiring to aid and abet • Commit mail fraud • Defraud the United States	Air	Conviction	Case Summary EPA Press Release
10/12	Fabio Dioses	CT	• Discharge of pollutants into the Plymouth sewer system	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
10/08	Guillermo Molina	FL	• Dumping pollutants into the Miami-Dade County Sanitary Sewer	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
09/28	Todd Rorie Robert Rorie	IN	• Aiding and abetting the illegal transportation of hazardous waste • Illegally storing and disposing of hazardous waste	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
09/22	Sidney Hebert	LA	• Negligent operation of a water treatment facility	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
09/21	Confluence Consulting	MT	• Negligent discharge of pollutants	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
09/21	Irika Shipping	MD	• Two counts failing to maintain an accurate oil record book and garbage record book • One count of obstruction of the Coast Guard's inspection • Three counts of concealing evidence • One count of making materially false statements • One count of obstruction of justice	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
09/20	Philip Smith	WA	• Discharging pollutants into waters of the United States without first obtaining a permit	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
09/08	DRD Towing Randall Dantin	LA	• Creating hazardous conditions • Obstruction of justice	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
09/03	Dimitrios Dimitrakis	CA	• Failing to maintain an Oil Record Book	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
08/31	John Buerman	RI	• One count of trafficking in counterfeit goods and knowingly using a counterfeit mark • One count of knowingly distributing and selling a misbranded pesticide	Pesticides	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
08/27	Mark Guinn	CA	• Discharge of large amounts of contaminated and toxic dredged spoils into navigable waters of the United States without a permit	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
08/26	Cherie Marie Courtney	LA	• Perjury		Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
08/25	Rodney T. Hoffman	WV	• Illegally storing hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
08/20	Andrew A. Costa	UT	• One count of disposing of hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
08/17	Vaja Sikharulidze	NC	• Failure to maintain accurate Oil Record Book	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
08/13	Richard R. Sparks	MO	• Making a false statement	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
08/03	Gunduz Avaz	FL	• One count knowingly failing to fully and accurately maintain an Oil Record Book	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
08/02	Stephen Swift	HI	• Two counts of transporting hazardous waste (perchloroethylene) without a manifest • One count of storing the perchloroethylene without a permit	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
07/30	Rogelio Lowe	CA	• Two counts of mail fraud	Air	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
07/30	Transmar Shipping Dimitrios Dimitrakis Volodymyr Dombrovskyy	CA	• Failing to maintain an Oil Record Book • Making a false statement to the U.S. Coast Guard • Aiding and abetting the failure to maintain an accurate Oil Record Book	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
07/23	Yavuz Mogultay	FL	• One count knowingly failing to fully and accurately to maintain an Oil Record Book	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
07/13	Daryl Quinn	ME	• One count of mail fraud	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
07/09	Irika Shipping S.A.	MD	• Two counts failing to maintain an accurate oil record book and garbage record book • One count of obstruction of the Coast Guard's inspection • Three counts of concealing evidence • One count of making materially false statements • One count of obstruction of justice	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
06/30	William Ringler	OH	• One count of allowing an unpermitted discharge	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
06/24	John Morgan Michael Evans	PA	• Unlawfully injecting brine produced from an oil drilling operation	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/24	Fabio Dioses	CT	• One count of knowing discharge of a pollutant	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
06/22	Kinder Morgan Port Manatee Terminal LLC	FL	• Falsely certified permit applications • Failed to notify and report that baghouse devices were not in compliance and would continue to be out of compliance	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/09	Paul Mancuso Steven Mancuso Lester Mancuso Ronald Mancuso	NY	• Multiple violations of asbestos-related environmental laws	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/08	Richard A. Bee	OH	• Two misdemeanor counts of misuse of a registered pesticide • Two misdemeanor counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act	Pesticides	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/08	Selective Structures L.L.C.	TN	• Illegally storing hazardous waste	Hazardous Waste	Guilty Plea Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/07	Ken-Dec, Inc. David Lester Becker	KY	• Discharge of electroplating waste water into a sink connected to the Horse Cave, Kentucky, Publicly Owned Treatment Works • Disposing of electroplating waste waters without a permit through a hose that emptied onto the ground outside the facility	Water Hazardous Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/07	Cooperative Success Maritime S.A.	NC	• Violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) • Making material false statements	Water	Guilty Plea Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
06/03	Christopher Shawn Mills	WV	• Illegally storing hazardous waste	Waste	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
05/21	Aksay Denizcilik Ve Ticaret A.S.	FL	• Two felony counts for knowingly failing to fully and accurately maintain an oil record book	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
05/18	Scott Tucker	OH	• Illegal handling of asbestos at demolition projects	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
05/12	Mark Guinn	CA	• Discharge of large amounts of contaminated and toxic dredged spoils into navigable waters of the United States without a permit	Water	Conviction	Case Summary including Press Release
05/11	Tulip Corporation	NY	• Storing hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
05/11	Louie Zaninovich	NY	• Misdemeanor charge of negligently discharging a pollutant to the Niagara Falls Water Board's Publicly Owned Treatment Works	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
05/03	Vaja Sikharulidze	NC	• Failure to maintain accurate Oil Record Book	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
04/29	Bernard E. Fuhs	IA	• Storage of hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
04/22	John Zacharias	TX	• Obstructing a U.S. Coast Guard investigation • Failing to maintain an oil record book	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
04/22	Scott J. Harris	IA	• One count of making false statements in a matter within the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Agency	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
04/15	John Shaw	ID	• Illegally cut the river bank with a bulldozer and installed "rock rip-rap" along approximately 2,000 linear feet of river bank without a permit	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
04/13	Jackie Taylor	GA	• Making false statements in records and reports regarding the Treatment Plant's wastewater discharges	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
04/12	Jennifer Duffey John Duffy	GA	• Illegally disposing of a hazardous waste	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
04/09	Robert Frost	MO	• One felony count of illegal disposal of hazardous waste	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
04/01	Gary West, Jr.	OR	• Unlawfully discharging fill material into a stream • Illegally taking threatened coho salmon	Water Endangered Species	Guilty Plea Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
03/26	Saverio Todaro	NY	• Falsifying hundreds of lead and asbestos inspection and testing reports	Air Lead-based paint	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
03/22	China Navigation	WA	• Felony violation failure to maintain a Garbage Record Book	Water	Guilty Plea Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
03/19	Mar-Cone Appliance Parts Co. (Marcone)	FL	• Illegal receipt, purchase, and sale of ozone-depleting refrigerant gas that had been smuggled into the United States	Air	Guilty Plea Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
03/09	Calvin Burks	MO	• One felony count of making false statements	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
03/04	Sandra Sattler	CT	• Failing to provide required lead-based paint disclosures to tenants	Lead-based paint	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
02/25	Logan City Municipal Corporation	UT	• Misdemeanor charge discharging a pollutant into waters of the United States	Water	Guilty Plea Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
02/19	Fleet Management Ltd. (Cosco Busan)	CA	• Violation of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 • Obstruction of justice • False statement charges for creating false and forged documents after a crash at the direction of shore-based supervisors with an intent to deceive the U.S. Coast Guard.	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
02/17	Kinder Morgan Port Manatee Terminal LLC	FL	• Falsely certified permit applications • Failed to notify and report that baghouse devices were not in compliance and would continue to be out of compliance	Air	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
02/17	John Signore	NY	• Storing hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
02/16	John Morgan Michael Evans	PA	• Unlawfully injecting brine produced from an oil drilling operation	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
02/11	James Garrido Kroy Corporation	FL	• Smuggling of ozone-depleting substances into the United States	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
02/09	Louie Zaninovich	NY	• Misdemeanor charge of negligently discharging a pollutant to the Niagara Falls Water Board's Publicly Owned Treatment Works	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
02/03	Tulip Corporation	NY	• Storing hazardous waste without a permit	Waste	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
02/01	Phoenix Products	CT	• Knowingly discharging a pollutant into the Town of Plymouth sewer system	Water	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
01/26	Laurence Cellamare	NH	• Making false statements to the EPA	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
01/22	Chuck Sivil	CA	• Tampering with and rendering ineffective, or causing another to tamper with or render ineffective, a monitoring device on a vapor recovery unit located at a bulk fuel transfer facility	Air	Sentencing	Case Summary including Press Release
01/13	Chemical and Metal Industries	LA	• Negligently causing the release of hazardous air pollutants and thereby negligently placing another person in imminent danger of death	Air	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release
01/04	Phoenix Products	CT	• Knowingly discharging a pollutant into the Town of Plymouth sewer system	Water	Guilty Plea	Case Summary including Press Release

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