| Item: | Trash-Hauling Firms Fined $3.3 Million in Fraud Against U.S. Navy | | Date: | September 30, 1999 | | Type: | Press Release | | Summary: | Two Maryland trash-hauling firms pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy, making false claims, making false statements and violation of the Clean Water Act. Michael W. Stevens, vice-president of A.W. Stevens and Sons Waste Disposal Systems Inc. and operator of St. Mary's Disposal
Systems Inc., also pleaded guilty to falsely billing the Navy an estimated $800,000 through the illegal shipment of garbage to Virginia landfills. The company also pleaded guilty to falsifying a statement to the Office of Motor Carriers regarding hours the firm's drivers spent behind the wheel. The companies agreed to pay a criminal fine of $1.3 million and a civil fine of $2 million. Stevens was ordered to serve 5 months in jail and 5 months' home monitoring and pay a $30,000 fine. Three other defendants sentenced under the Maryland litter-control law--Albert W. Stevens, Susan Goolsby Stevens and Patrick T. Stevens--each must pay fines of $20,000 to both St. Mary's County and Prince George's County in Maryland, the sites of the illegal trash transfers. |
| Page: | http://www.dot.gov/affairs/1999/oig1599.htm | |
