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PA OHIO MAN SENTENCED FOR DUMPING ASBESTOS
Release Date: 07/11/97
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1997
OHIO MAN SENTENCED FOR DUMPING ASBESTOS
Dennis Anderson of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced on July 2, to five months in prison, five months of home detention and three years supervised release and ordered to pay a $10,050 fine in U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Anderson pleaded guilty to one felony count of unlawfully disposing of asbestos in violation of the Clean Air Act, after hiring workers to remove asbestos insulation from the former McGuffy school in Cleveland and dispose of the waste at an abandoned house in a low-income community in Cleveland. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and the Cleveland Air Pollution Control Authority with the assistance of EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center.
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