State Accuses Santa Barbara Company, Owners of Defrauding UST Cleanup Fund

摘要

California prosecutors have filed criminal charges against a Santa Barbara environmental consulting firm and its owners for allegedly overbilling the state for cleaning up underground storage tank sites in 2008 (State v. Hayden Environmental Inc., Cal. Super. Ct., No. 1419973, 5/10/12).State authorities arrested Kurt Hayden and Julie Hayden, the husband and wife owners of the company, Hayden Environmental Inc., accusing them of conspiring to commit grand theft, committing grand theft, and presenting fraudulent claims to the State Water Resources Control Board's Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund.