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On April 26, 2006, five managers at Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. subsidiary of the infamous McWane steel pipe corporation were convicted of multiple felonies by a federal judge after one of the longest trials in the Justice Department’s history. The crimes included various environmental crimes as well as lying to OSHA Compliance Officer Carol Tiedemann from OSHA’s Avenel NJ Area Office.
The ringleader was Plant Manager John Prisque. The company lawyer attacked the prosecutors from the US DOJ’s Environmental Crimes Section, led by David Uhlmann, Andrew Goldsmith and Deborah Harris, and predicted that the defendants would be “ultimately vindicated.”
Three years later, the company and the managers were sentenced – Prisque got the stiffest sentence: five years in prison. After that the company and its managers appealed those convictions and sentences to the US Court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court, and lost
This week, Prisque surrendered to the US Bureau of Prisons, at the minimum security prison in Minersville, PA. All or most of the other managers have done so too.
The wheels of justice grind slowly ….
Our thanks go to all the investigators and prosecutors who worked so hard to make this day happen.
Eric Frumin
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