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Criminal Press Releases - 2015

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This is a list of press releases announcing results of EPA criminal cases adjudicated in U.S. courts. This is a sortable table and can be viewed by date or alphabetically under all other headings.

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2015 | 201420132012 | 2011

 
Month/Day Defendant State Violation Related Media Case Status Press Release
             
8/19 Mississippi Phosphates Corp. (MPC) MS
  • Clean Water Act Violation - Discharging more than 38 million gallons of acidic waste water, resulting in 47,000+ fish kill.
Water Guilty Plea DOJ Press Release
8/5 James Jariv, Nathan Stoliar NV
  • RINS Fraud - Biodiesel fuels scheme.  Generating fraudulent biodiesel credits and exporting biodiesel without providing biodiesel credits to the United States
Title 18 Sentencing DOJ Press Release
7/9 Jon Koloski WA
  • Unpermitted work which resulted in the loss of an endangered species habitat
Water Guilty Plea DOJ Press Release
6/29 Calumite Company LLC IN
  • Clean Air Act False Statement Violations
Air Sentencing DOJ Press Release
6/23 Victor Amezcua CA
  • Unlawful Disposal of Sewage "...knowingly pumped vacuum truck (port-a-potty) contents into a ravine... on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton"
Waste Guilty Plea DOJ Press Release
6/9 Southern Grease Company, George Butterworth TN
  • Illegal disposal of waste grease into municipal sewer systems
Water Guilty Plea Press Release
5/1/ William “Billy” Franklin Johnston NC
  • Discharging of cow feces into the French Broad River
Water Sentencing Press Release
4/30 Daryl Fisher, Russell Taylor FL
  • Improper use of pesticides resulting in significant loss of animal life
Pesticides Sentencing Press Release
4/29 Chad Ducey, Chris Ducey, Craig Ducey IN
  • RINs Fraud - Biodiesel fuels scheme  "...falsely claiming that the fuel was eligible for federal renewable energy incentives, when they knew it was not."Securities Fraud (Craig Ducey)
Title 18 Guilty Plea Press Release
4/22 Trans Energy, Inc. WV • Clean Water Act Violations - in connection with its natural gas drilling activity Clean Water Act Sentencing Press Release
4/15 Joseph Furando, Caravan Trading Co.,   CIMA Green IN
  • Fraudently selling biodiesel incentives (RINs fraud)
Title 18 Guilty Plea Press Release
3/18 Michael E. Burdette and Robert J. Reynolds W.Va
  • Clean Water Act Violations - re January 2014 Elk River chemical spill "negligently discharging MCHM into the Elk River without a permit"
Water Guilty Plea DOJ Press Release
3/16 William E. Tis and Charles E. Herzing W.Va
  • Clean Water Act Violations
Water Guilty Plea DOJ
3/4 Robert Pate WA
  • Clean Air Act violations - "knowingly discharging wastewater into Platinum/Squirell Creek without a Clean Water Act Permit; knowingly violating (XS Platinum Inc.'s) Clean Water Act permit for discharges to the Salmon River; and false reporting (to the Alaska Dept. of Conservation).
Water Guilty Plea DOJ Press Release
2/25 John W. Shelton WV
  • Conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act "...tampered with water samples to make them appear within permissible levels"
Water Guilty Plea FBI Press Release
1/27 Kelly Plating Company, Thomas E. White OH
  • Illegal discharges into sewer system
Water Guilty Plea

DOJ Press Release

1/22 Mark Sawyer, Newell Lynn Smith, Eric Gruenberg, Amida DiSanti, Milto DiSanti TN
  • Conspiracy Associated with Illegal Asbestos Removal
Air Sentencing DOJ
Press Release
1/16 James Leslie Vaughan MT
  • Illegally disposing of domestic sewage
Waste Sentencing Case Summary
1/7 Randy Jones WI
  • Pipeline Safety Violations and False Statements -  failing to conduct bi-monthly voltage readings and an annual survey of a pipeline used to transport jet fuel in violation of the Pipeline Safety Act (PSA) and making a false statement to the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA)
Pipeline Guilty Plea DOJ Press Release