A Leland, N.C.-based oil company and its president have been sentenced for illegally transporting, storing and disposing of used oil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), federal prosecutors announced July 16 (United States v. Passsentencing).
Benjamin Franklin Pass, president of P&W Waste Oil Services, was sentenced to 42 months in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Pass and the company also were ordered to pay about $21.4 million in restitution to cover cleanup costs.
P&W collected used oil and blended it for industrial use. The company transported, processed and marketed on-specification ...
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