- September 6, 1995: United States v. Paul Zborovsky and Jose
Prieto (S.D. FL)
- Jose Prieto and Paul Zborovsky were sentenced on September 6,
1995, for smuggling the ozone depleting refrigerant gas
dichlorodifluoromethane (also known as CFC-12) into the United
States. Prieto was sentenced to 26 months of imprisonment.
Co-defendant Paul Zborovsky was sentenced to two months of
imprisonment, two months of home detention and a $5,000 fine.
Zborovsky entered a plea prior to trial. Zborovsky pleaded
guilty to one count of violating the Clean Air Act (CAA) by
importing CFC-12 into the United States without the consumption
allowances issued by the Environmental Protection Agency. He
also pleaded guilty to one count of smuggling.
- August 30, 1995: United States v. Irma Henneberg (S.D. FL)
- Irma Henneberg, manager of Caicos Caribbean Lines, Inc., was
found guilty by a federal jury on August 30, 1995 on 34 counts
of making false statements on customs documents used to
illegally smuggle the refrigerant gas dichlorodifluoromethane
(also known as CFC-12) into the United States. Henneberg made
false statements on shipping manifests filed with the U.S.
Customs Service to document the purported shipment of 209 cargo
containers of refrigerant gas allegedly shipped from Miami. The
purpose of the false manifests was to conceal the smuggling of
large quantities of CFC-12 into the domestic commerce of the
United States.
- July 24, 1995: United States v. Adi Dara Dubash and Homi Patel
(S.D. FL)
- Adi Dara Dubash was sentenced on July 24, 1995, after
pleading guilty to smuggling 8,400 cylinders of CFC-12 into the
United States in violation of the Clean Air Act. He was
sentenced to 22 months of imprisonment, 3 years of probation
and a $6,000 fine. Dubash's co-defendant, Homi Patel, was
sentenced on July 25, 1995, for the same offenses. Patel was
sentenced to 3 years of probation and was required to pay a
mandatory special assessment. Beginning in October 1994,
Dubash, Patel and other co-conspirators caused seven cargo
containers of the CFCs to be shipped into the New York/New
Jersey area in bonded status. They further arranged for five of
the seven containersto be forwarded to Miami, purportedly for
reshipment out of the United States.
- June 23, 1995: United States v. John Tominelli (S.D. FL)
- Customs broker John Tominelli pleaded guilty on June 23,
1995, to one count of violating the Clean Air Act by importing
into the United States 11 cargo containers of the ozone
depleting refrigerant dichlorofluoromethane, known as CFC-12,
without possessing the consumption allowances required by the
CAA; one count of smuggling CFC-12 into the United States; and
one count of importing distilled spirits without paying the
required taxes. Tominelli faces possible penalties including 15
years incarceration and fines in excess of $750,000.
- May 4, 1995: Illegal Disposal
- On May 4, 1995, an administrative complaint was issued to
S.D. Richman Sons, Inc., a Philadelphia wholesale scrap metal
dealer, for violations of the stratospheric ozone protection
requirements of the Clean Air Act. Specifically, the company
disposed of numerous small appliances without verifying that
the refrigerant had been evacuated from the appliances. This
failure to verify prior refrigerant evacuation resulted in the
likelyrelease of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) containing
refrigerant to the environment. The complaint seeks a civil
penalty of $186,000.
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