ASBESTOS REMOVAL REGULATIONS

Connecticut asbestos removal consultant faces prison time for violating asbestos removal regulations.

October 22, 2009 - A Connecticut man who had been working as an asbestos remediation trainer is facing the possibility of spending up to a year in prison and paying fines of up to $100,000 after pleading guilty this week to one count of violating asbestos removal regulations.

The consultant, John V. Bruce, 39, a Meriden, Conn., resident and the owner of Environmental Training and Consulting Inc. of Vernon and Wallingford, pleaded guilty at the U.S. District Court in Bridgeport.

Federal documents state that in May 2004, Bruce sold a certificate for $400 for a four-day, 32-hour asbestos worker training course to a person who never enrolled in the course. The certificate, signed by Bruce, included a completion date of 2002, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

Investigators discovered the illegal transaction after learning that the person Bruce had sold the certificate to had only entered the United States from Honduras two weeks prior to receiving the certificate. Bruce will face sentencing in the case when he appears before a judge in Bridgeport on Jan. 7, 2010.

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