J. C. Penney Fined in Waste-Dump Case
J. C. Penney Co. Inc. was fined $53,000 Tuesday in Whittier Municipal Court after pleading no contest to two misdemeanor counts of dumping hazardous waste into the Puente Hills Landfill.
As part of a plea bargain with the district attorney’s office, two misdemeanor charges against the company were dismissed, as were charges against Christopher Muzquiz, a building maintenance supervisor at a Penney facility in Santa Fe Springs.
Prosecutors said flammable liquid in barrels was discarded during cleaning of the Santa Fe Springs facility and dumped at the landfill Aug. 3.
The company has already paid the costs of cleaning up the illegal disposal, Deputy Dist. Atty. William Carter said.
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