Trial judge sentences Salvagnos
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Howard G. Munson presided over the trial of this case, including the sentencing hearing. In imposing the terms of incarceration against the Salvagnos, the judge found that the asbestos crimes resulted in the substantial likelihood of death and serious bodily injury to numerous individuals.
Nationally renowned experts testified for the United States at the Salvagnos sentencing hearing that most of the 100 worst exposed former AAR workers are almost certain to contract asbestosis, lung cancers and mesothelioma, an invariable deadly form of cancer. The criminal conspiracy involved as many as 500 AAR and Analytical Laboratories workers, who also are at risk.
Courtesy of The EPA
Asbestos sentence for those like Salvagno less than guidelines