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TWO PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVES AND COMPANY ARE CHARGED WITH FALSE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
Release Date: 06/17/99
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1999
TWO PENNSYLVANIA EXECUTIVES AND COMPANY ARE
CHARGED WITH FALSE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
CHARGED WITH FALSE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
Hydro-Analysis Associates Inc. (HAA) of Kutztown, Pa., its president, Randy S. Haring, and the former laboratory director, Robert J. Spare, were charged on June 9, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia with providing false environmental test results to hundreds of customers. The charges include making false statements to EPA and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP), mail fraud and violating the Clean Water Act. The charges allege that between 1994 and 1998 the defendants falsely told their customers that they were using proper instruments and equipment and that they were using EPA-certified methods to perform tests on drinking water, wastewater, soils and underground storage tanks. It is further alleged that the defendants were not using the proper instruments and that they had no quality control procedures in place to ensure accurate test results. HAA’s customers included the PADEP, businesses, municipalities, nursing homes, residential communities, and elementary and secondary schools. Accurate drinking water testing is necessary to protect the public from a variety of diseases, including intestinal infections. If convicted on all counts, Haring faces a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $1 million, Spare faces a maximum of 12 in prison and/or a fine of up to $750,000 and HAA faces a fine of up to $1 million. As the result of this investigation, HAA was closed on Nov. 30, 1998. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, and is being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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