Polluter Gets $200,000 Fine, 6 Years in Prison
A landfill operator was sentenced Friday to six to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for dumping toxic wastes into a tributary of the Youghiogheny River.
William Fiore, 61, of Whitehall, operator of the Municipal & Industrial Disposal Co. in Elizabeth Township, was ordered to jail immediately by Allegheny County Judge Raymond A. Novak.
Fiore was convicted by a jury of altering pipes, discharging hazardous wastes, obstructing justice, conspiracy and perjury. In a separate, non-jury trial, Fiore was convicted on 53 charges of illegal dumping. His sentence was based on the two convictions.
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