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VIRGINIA MAN AND COMPANY SENTENCED FOR SELLING FALSE ASBESTOS TRAINING CERTIFICATES
Release Date: 03/30/2000
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2000
VIRGINIA MAN AND COMPANY SENTENCED FOR SELLING
FALSE ASBESTOS TRAINING CERTIFICATES
On March 23, Omar Gonzalez and his company Industrial Training Support Services (ITSS), both of Richmond Va., were sentenced on for violating the Clean Air Act. Between January 1994 and August 1996 the defendants falsified training certificates required to certify individuals to remove asbestos. Some of the individuals who received false certificates were undocumented aliens who were issued certificates under false names. Gonzalez also pleaded guilty to evading federal income taxes. The court ordered Gonzalez to serve 27 months in prison, pay a $90,995 fine, pay $68,089 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service and serve two years probation. ITSS was ordered to jointly pay the $90,995 fine with Gonzalez and was placed on one year probation. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the EPA Office of Inspector General, the FBI, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the General Services Administration Office of Inspector General and the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond.
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