New York lab indicted for fake asbestos reports
A New York environmental lab has been indicted for issuing fake reports on asbestos air quality as part of a conspiracy with contractors spanning a decade to cover up shoddy asbestos abatement projects, according to an assistant U.S. attorney general. Building owners were given false air monitoring reports that the buildings were safe to inhabit. The lab, Certified Environmental Services, Inc. (CES), and five of its employees have been charged with Clean Air Act violations, mail fraud, and making false statements to special agents. Dangerous levels of asbestos were left behind – but not reported – at a variety of buildings, including a sorority house at Syracuse University, a TV station, a Job Corps building, a library, and a medical office building. This is the third major case of asbestos fraud in New York in the past five years.
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