[CPEO-BIF] "Project manager fined in misrepresentation of lead contamination in Granby [Missouri] park"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Project manager fined in misrepresentation of lead contamination in Granby park
	
By Jeff Lehr 
Joplin Globe (MO)
June 2, 2023
 
    
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge has fined a project manager from Iowa $40,000 for misleading the federal government regarding lead contamination in Granby’s city park.

U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips sentenced Lynn Eich, 65, of DeWitt, Iowa, to five years of probation in addition to the fine at a hearing Thursday in federal court in Kansas City. Eich had pleaded guilty in July of last year to making a false statement relating to a federal environmental cleanup contract.

The defendant was the project manager on a soil cleanup project in Newton County for which his employer, Environmental Quality Management, had been awarded a contract by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency totaling almost $12 million.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.joplinglobe.com/news/project-manager-fined-in-misrepresentation-of-lead-contamination-in-granby-park/article_d4de1114-0186-11ee-9fd9-cfb1ba2690cf.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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