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\"pouring<\/a>A federal judge on Monday sentenced DiAne Gordon, 61, of Memphis, to three years in prison in connection with her fabrication of discharge monitoring reports required under the Clean Water Act, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The submission of those fraudulent documents was made to state regulators in Tennessee and Mississippi,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Court Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr also ordered Gordon to pay restitution in the amount of $222,388. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the fraud count, Gordon was sentenced to 26 months in prison, and she received an additional ten months\u2019 incarceration on the related probation revocation for having engaged in criminal conduct while under supervision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"brownAccording to court documents and information in the public record, Gordon was the co-owner and chief executive officer of Environmental Compliance and Testing (ECT). <\/span><\/p>\n

ECT held itself out to the public as a full-service environmental consulting firm and offered, among other things, sampling and testing of stormwater, process water, and wastewater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Customers, typically concrete companies, hired ECT to take samples and analyze them in a manner consistent with Clean Water Act permit requirements, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gordon claimed to gather and send the samples to a full-service environmental testing laboratory. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The alleged results were memorialized in lab reports and chain of custody forms submitted to two state agencies, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), to satisfy permit requirements. <\/span><\/p>\n

In reality, Gordon fabricated the test results and related reports. <\/span><\/p>\n

She even forged documents from a reputable testing laboratory to further her crime. <\/span><\/p>\n

Gordon then billed her clients for the sampling and analysis. <\/span><\/p>\n

Law enforcement and regulators quickly determined that Gordon created and submitted, or caused to be submitted, at least 405 false lab reports and chain of custody forms from her company in Memphis to state regulators since 2017.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s sentence appropriately reflects the harm caused by Gordon\u2019s betrayal of her position of trust and her fraud upon her customers, the regulatory authorities, and the citizens of Tennessee and Mississippi,\u201d said Assistant Attorney Todd Kim of the Justice Department\u2019s Environment and Natural Resources Division.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Clean Water Act ensures that water quality is maintained throughout the United States,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy Jr. for the Western District of Tennessee. \u201cCorrect and accurate test results of discharges into rivers and stream and the honest reporting of those results to regulatory authorities are important parts of the Act\u2019s regulatory framework.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Adding, “without accurate test results and reporting of those results, the Clean Water Act will not work as Congress intended. Because honest reporting of this data is so important to the functioning of the Act, our office will vigorously prosecute individuals who falsely report test results.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Environmental Protection Agency \u2014 Criminal Investigation Division investigated the case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trial Attorney Banumathi Rangarajan of the Environment and Natural Resources Division\u2019s Environmental Crimes Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Dean DeCandia, and Principal Deputy Criminal Chief Carroll Andre for the Western District of Tennessee prosecuted the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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