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PA HOUSTON EXECUTIVE SENTENCED ON HAZARDOUS WASTE CHARGES
Release Date: 05/09/97
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1997
HOUSTON EXECUTIVE SENTENCED ON HAZARDOUS WASTE CHARGES
Gerald J. Goldberg of Houston, Texas, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Houston on May 2, to six months home confinement, three years probation and was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and an additional $100,000 to the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission to pay for cleaning up and remediating an illegal disposal site in Houston. The sentence and fines are the result of his guilty plea of illegally transporting approximately 200 drums of hazardous waste on four separate occasions between July and December 1992. Goldberg is the former president and majority stockholder of Gulf States Paint Inc., and San Jacinto Paint Manufacturing Co. Inc. in Houston. He hired Lionel Flanagan to transport the hazardous waste barrels for which no required federal hazardous waste manifests had been maintained and was subsequently convicted of violating Texas state hazardous waste law. The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division and the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission through the Texas Environmental Enforcement Task Force.
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