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Newswire : Releases : "Virginia Executive &..." Virginia Executive & Companies Receive Large Jail Term and Substantial Fines for Environmental Crimes 3/31/2006 9:39:00 AM To: National Desk Contact: U.S.

Department of Justice, 202-514-2007 or 202-514-1888 (TDD), Web: http://www.USDOJ.gov WASHINGTON, March 31 /U.S.

Newswire/ - A Virginia executive and two companies, ACS Environmental, Inc.

(ACS) and Air Power Enterprises, Inc.

(Air Power), were sentenced late yesterday to a substantial jail term and fines for conspiracy to defraud the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Justice Department announced today.

James Schaubach, president of ACS and vice president of Air Power, was sentenced to 21 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and fined $1.5 million.

Both Air Power and ACS were sentenced to five years probation and Air Power was also fined $500,000.

Nicanor Lotuaco, president of Air Power, was sentenced on Jan.

26 to five months in jail, followed by five months home detention and three years supervised release, and fined $1 million.

"By falsely certifying that workers had the appropriate credentials to work on asbestos and lead abatement projects, the defendants endangered the health and safety of their employees and the public," said Sue Ellen Wooldridge, Assistant Attorney General for...

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