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NORTH CAROLINA COMPANY PRESIDENT SENTENCED IN ASBESTOS CASE
Release Date: 04/06/2000
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2000
NORTH CAROLINA COMPANY PRESIDENT
SENTENCED IN ASBESTOS CASE
SENTENCED IN ASBESTOS CASE
Jorge Mora, president of AmBien Temps Inc., in High Point, N.C., was sentenced on March 28 to serve 15 months in prison, pay a $25,000 fine and serve a year’s probation. The defendant was previously convicted of submitting applications with false names, social security numbers and immigration registration numbers, in order to fraudulently gain asbestos removal licenses for workers at his company. Most of the untrained workers were illegal immigrants. The court also ordered Mora to report to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for possible deportation to his native Columbia after the completion of his sentence. Removal of asbestos without proper training can lead to the inhalation of asbestos fibers which can cause lung cancer, a lung disease known as “asbestosis,” and mesothelioma, a cancer of the chest and abdominal cavities. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services and EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center. It was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greensboro, N.C.
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