One needs to look no further than U.S. Bankruptcy Judge George Hodges» Garlock Sealing Technologies decision in a Charlotte federal court last year or the recent resignation of NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, in light of
his indictment on asbestos fraud charges, to begin to understand the degree of fraud and abuse that exits in asbestos litigation and trusts -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal
indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman
on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal
asbestos handling and
asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted
on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.
According to Representative James J. Florio, Democrat of New Jersey and chairman of the House Subcommittee
on Transportation and Tourism, the reports by inspectors general in three of epa's regional offices represent «a devastating
indictment» of the six - year - old «
Asbestos in Schools» program.
As discomfiting attention from federal prosecutors and the media rains down
on asbestos judges comprising the nation's # 1 Judicial Hellhole, a runaway verdict to the tune of $ 190 million has now been dramatically reduced... → Read More: Is Heat Brought by Former Speaker Silver's
Indictment Making NYCAL Judges Think Twice?