April 15, 2019

Defense contractor Lawrence Aviation Industries, Inc. and its owner and CEO, Gerald Cohen, have been found liable for $48 million in costs incurred by the Environmental Protection Agency to remediate groundwater contamination caused by defendants’ unlawful discharge of a number of hazardous substances at LAI’s facility in Port Jefferson, New York.  Civil penalties of $750,000 were also imposed against both LAI and Cohen.  USAO EDNY

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