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Company’s Vice President Pleads Guilty to Negligently Releasing Asbestos Details Written by Imperial Valley News
New York - A New York man pleaded guilty Friday to negligently releasing asbestos and thereby exposing victims to an increased risk of death or serious bodily injury.
Roger Osterhoudt, 58, of Saugerties, New York, entered a guilty plea to a Clean Air Act violation before the Hon. Judge McAvoy sitting in Binghamton. Sentencing is currently scheduled for Sept. 28. Osterhoudt faces up to a year in prison, five years’ probation, a $50,000 criminal fine, and will likely be held liable for providing restitution to any victims.
Suit filed against Alabama sheriff after mentally ill Black man killed in his home
Updated Apr 29, 2021;
Posted Apr 29, 2021
Wallace Wilder s daughters, Tamarra, center, and Mariah, right, attended an announcement that the family is filing a federal lawsuit against Pickens County Sheriff Todd Hall alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations. Wilder, who was mentally ill, was shot in his Gordo home by law enforcement officers on Aug. 28, 2019. Also pictured: a grand-niece, Chloe Harris, 8, far left, and Mariah s daughters, Skylar Sullivan, 5, and Alana Wilder, three months old. (Photo by Greg Garrison/AL.com)
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Attorneys for the estate of Wallace Wilder filed a federal lawsuit today against Pickens County Sheriff Todd Hall, who was involved in the shooting of the mentally ill Black man in his home in Gordo.
Abatement Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Illegally Removing Asbestos Details Written by Justice Department
New York - A New York woman pleaded guilty today to illegally removing and disposing of asbestos.
According to court documents, between 2015 and 2016, Stephanie Laskin, 45, of Newburgh, along with several others, conspired to illegally remove asbestos from a former IBM site in Kingston, now known as TechCity. The facility in question contained over 400,000 square feet of regulated asbestos-containing material (RACM), as well as an additional 6,000 linear feet of RACM pipe wrap.
Laskin, the owner of A2 Environmental Services (A2ES), who had special asbestos abatement training, hired numerous workers and supervisors to conduct the asbestos removal. She and her co-conspirators pressured these workers to expedite the removal of asbestos at the site to meet contract deadlines. In doing so, she led them to cut corners, violate their remediation trainin