DEP Invoice or Financial Record, September 30, 2001

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Asbestosinaictmenf for fix. businessman A Bronx businessman sai± and his ^bestos-removal Twelve of the 19 counts company ' were indicted . accuse Parker and his yesterday on 19 counts of company of violating the violating the Clean Air Act Clean Air Act, while two and other federal laws. others charge him with If convicted, Andre Par­ Superfund violations. ker, 35, of Riverdale, could face a maximiiTn of three According to the indict­ to five years in federal ment, Parker, through his prison on each count, as firm’s supervisors, or­ well as a fine of $250,000 dered workers to illegally per count, said U.S. Attor­ remove, asbestos from mi- ney Joseph Pavone, merous buildings owned Parker’s Bronx-based by the upstate Plattsburgh company, Parker Environ­ Housing Authority. mental Management Company workers then Group, faces a possible illegally dumped “hun­ fine of $95 million, Pavone dreds of b^s” of asbestos at various locations throughout the Platts­ burgh area, Pavone said. Additionally, Parker was charged with perjury for allegedly lying about his role while giving grand- jury testimony in April, Pavone said. Meanwhile, both Parker and his company also were charged with ob­ struction of justice for al­ legedly providing false ci-pl-CPt documents to the grand jury, and mail fraud for al­ legedly falsifying labora­ tory results and filing false claims with the U.S. Hous- ing and Urban Develop­ ment Department Post Wire Services

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