Criminal Press Releases - 2015

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

Month/Day	Defendant	State	Violation	Related Media	Case Status	Press Release
11/5	Acquest Transit, LLC	NY	Criminal Contempt - Prohibited filling of protected wetlands	Water	Guilty Plea	DOJ Press Release
10/27	Christopher Garrity	ME	Clean Water Act Violation - Discharged a pollutant into the Piscataqua river.	Water	Guilty Plea	DOJ 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