Two Westward Dutch Harbor employees get jail time for Clean Air Act violation
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Dispatch] By Jerzy Shedlock - November 13, 2014 -
Two former supervisors at a Dutch Harbor seafood plant were sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Anchorage to jail time for Clean Air Act violations.
James Hampton, 45, the former assistant chief engineer for Westward Seafoods Inc., and Raul Morales, 53, former powerhouse supervisor, each faced a single Clean Air Act tampering charge.
The charges stemmed from the men falsifying data to cover up that they intentionally failed to operate air pollution systems.
Hampton was sentenced to 70 days; Morales was sentenced to 45 days, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Alaska...
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