Dive summary:
- William S. McCambridge, from Dudley, England, was ordered to pay $309,490 for recycling fraud involving a former Charlton hazardous waste recycling business that defrauded a New York developer.
- McCambridge was supposed to be removing contaminated soil for the construction of a shopping mall but was submitting inflated invoices.
- The sentence was scheduled to begin in September 2009, but the case kept having unexplained delays.
From the article:
According to court documents and statements, Mr. McCambridge was recruited by two men affiliated with a Connecticut-based site redevelopment and environmental remediation firm to own and run Recycle Technology, a contaminated-fuel- and soil-disposal and recycling company just off Route 20 in Charlton. The men, affiliated with a North Haven, Conn.-based company, Earth Technology, provided Recycle Technology with hundreds of thousands of dollars in start-up funds while one of the men exercised secret oversight and control over Recycle Technology. Mr. McCambridge’s company got financial support during most of its short existence. ...