Region

    Defendants

Case Type/Status

2

Robert Carville

Plea Agreement/Pleaded guilty to allegedly storing hazardous waste without a permit

2

Fuel Bio One LLC

Biodiesel fuel company sentenced for allegedly discharging more than 45,000 gallons of wastewater from its commercial biodiesel fuel production facility

2

Jose Rivera (Terminix)

Sentencing/Former Branch Manager sentenced to 12 months in prison for allegedly illegally applying fumigants containing methyl bromide in multiple residential locations in the U.S. Virgin Islands

3

Timothy Peer

Indictment/Indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly violating permits and discharging untreated sewage from his sewage

3

David Klepadlo, David D. Klepadlo and Assoc., Inc.

Plea Agreement/Pleaded guilty to allegedly making false statements in violation of the Clean Water Act and tampering with a government witness.

3

Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority

Indictment/161 criminal charges filed for allegedly failing to notify residents when the agency replaced lead water lines – creating health risks for affected households; charged with allegedly failing to sample water lines following the replacements within the time frame required under state law.

3

Mike Blankenship

Sentencing/Sentenced to 15 months in prison for alleged Clean Water Act violations

5

IAV GmbH (Volkswagen)

Plea Agreement/Plead guilty to one criminal felony count and pay a $35 million criminal fine as a result of the company’s alleged role in a long-running scheme for Volkswagen AG (VW) to sell diesel vehicles in the United States by using a defeat device to cheat on U.S. vehicle emissions tests required by federal law.

5

Kenneth R. Morrison

Plea Agreement/Convicted of alleged interstate transportation of stolen goods

5

Gary Alfred Sayers, Electro-Plating Services, Inc.

Plea Agreement/Plead guilty in federal court to allegedly illegally storing hazardous wastes at the company’s premises in Madison Heights, Michigan, in knowing violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

5

Mark Harris

Plea Agreement/Pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to allegedly knowingly failing to remove asbestos in a South Point, Ohio electric power plant.

5

Richard Baude, Axel Eiser, Stefan Knirsh, Carsten Nagel, (Audi)

Indictment/Charged for their roles in the nearly decade-long alleged conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in tens of thousands of Audi “clean diesel” vehicles.

5

Tier Environmental LLC

Plea Agreement/Pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of allegedly recklessly violating a hazardous waste permit issued under Chapter 3734 of the Ohio Revised Code.

5

Amin M. Salem, Mohamed Salem, Zaharan al-Qadan

Indictment/Indicted on charges of allegedly illegally accepting food stamps at seven Cleveland-area gas stations, laundering the profits, illegally having firearms, operating an unregulated slaughterhouse, and polluting a stream by dumping animal blood and fluids in it.

7

Steven Weaver

Sentencing/Sentenced to two years of probation for allegedly purchasing and renovating former Kossuth County Home without thoroughly inspecting for asbestos.

7

Ahmed El-Sherif

Sentencing/Ordered to pay $544,287 in restitution for allegedly storing hazardous waste without a license.

9

James Phillip Lucero

Sentencing/Sentenced to 30 months in prison for the alleged unpermitted discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States, including wetlands.