Businessman Fined After Admitting to a Payoff

SALT LAKE CITY — The owner of Envirocare of Utah, a radioactive waste disposal company, was fined $100,000 on Tuesday but got no jail time in a plea bargain after his admission that he paid off a former state nuclear regulator.

Khosrow Semnani had admitted giving $40,000 to Larry F. Anderson, former director of the state’s Division of Radiation Control, and pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor charge of aiding and abetting the filing of a false tax return.

Anderson, who has not been prosecuted, has said the payments were for a legitimate consulting agreement.