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WEST VIRGINIAN SENTENCED TO ADDITIONAL JAIL TIME
Release Date: 03/09/2001
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2001
WEST VIRGINIAN SENTENCED TO ADDITIONAL JAIL TIME
Luke C. Hester 202-564-7818 or e-mail: [email protected]
On Feb. 22, Donald Hoffman, the owner and operator of a metal plating company, Hoffman Metal Finishing, in Mabscott, W.Va., was sentenced to immediate imprisonment for an additional one-year term for violating the terms of his supervised release. Hoffman and his company had been convicted of Clean Water Act (CWA) pretreatment violations in July 1999. He served a one year term for that conviction and was released in Aug. 2000 under supervision. A condition of the release was that he publish an apology in a metal plating industry trade journal acknowledging his CWA criminal conviction. Hoffmann falsely asserted to his probation officer that such notice was published. Hoffman also repeatedly failed to undertake a cleanup of abandoned hazardous plating chemical waste at his company’s site in Mabscott. EPA will perform the cleanup using Superfund funds at an estimated cost of at least $860,000. EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the FBI, the U.S. Probation Office, and the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection investigated Hoffmann’s failure to adhere to the terms of his supervised release. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Charleston.
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