Ex-Superfund Official Guilty in Fraud

[Rose Siding]

LOS ANGELES -- The former head of the federal Superfund environmental cleanup program was found guilty Monday of concocting a scheme to defraud a client who had hired her consulting company for an environmental cleanup project.

Rita Marie Lavelle, an assistant administrator in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Reagan administration, was convicted by a jury of wire fraud and making false statements to federal agents.
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Lavelle faces up to 35 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.25 million when she is sentenced in January.

Lavelle previously served time in prison after she was convicted of perjury for lying while testifying before Congress in 1982. She was fired two months after the testimony in a scandal that also forced the resignation of the environmental agency's chief.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-superfund-fraud,0,5558432.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[hatrack]

1. Solid, Consistent, Unwavering and Dedicated

No flip-flops from this warmed-over Reagan hack - she's determined to pull in fraudulent dollars by any means necessary.

[AlCzervik]

2. page 124 in Bushwacked is about her

and some of the others involved with scamming. I bet Molly Ivins is smiling right now.

[struggle4progress]

3. kick for Reaganite corruption: the gift that keeps on giving!

:kick: