[P2assist] Federal court sentences Va. man for bogus light bulb recycling scheme

Mon, 20 May 2002 07:33:24 -0400

 Federal court sentences Va. man for bogus light bulb recycling scheme      

 CONCORD, N.H. (May 17) -- A federal court has sentenced a Virginia         
 businessman to 18 months in prison for illegally storing fluorescent light 
 bulbs in connection with a bogus recycling scheme.                         

 Franklin D. Sales, an officer of Consolidated Recycling Inc. in New        
 Hampshire, also will pay more than $280,000 in restitution to the victims  
 of the scheme.                                                             

 Sales and other officers accepted fluorescent light bulbs and ballast      
 waste from school districts and government agencies in Colorado, New York, 
 North Carolina and Ohio. They falsely claimed to have equipment to recycle 
 the material and instead abandoned the waste at locations in New Hampshire 
 and Massachusetts.                                                         

 Sales previously had pleaded guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud and making   
 false statements to a federal agency.                                      

Karen Hales
Recycling/Solid Waste Specialist
TOWN of CARY

919-462-3873 voice
919-469-4304 fax
khales@ci.cary.nc.us