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FORMER SAYBOLT OFFICER SENTENCED
Release Date: 03/05/99
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1999
FORMER SAYBOLT OFFICER SENTENCED
David H. Mead of The Woodlands, Texas, was sentenced on March 1, to serve four months in prison, four months home confinement and pay a $20,000 fine by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Trenton. Mead is the former President and Chief Executive Officer for Western Hemisphere Operations of Saybolt Inc., which operates a laboratory testing facility for petroleum products in New Jersey. Mead directed an employee to go to Panama to pay a $50,000 bribe to Panamanian government officials to acquire tax benefits and a lease on a prime business location along the Panama Canal. The allegations of bribery were discovered during an investigation of false data reporting at Saybolt’s Wolburn, Mass., laboratory. Saybolt has already paid $4.9 million dollars in fines for its convictions on charges of providing false data to EPA and Saybolt customers, and for bribery of Panamanian Officials. The case was investigated by EPA’s criminal Investigation Division with the assistance of EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center, and was prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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