Bloomberg Law
May 8, 2018, 11:05 AM UTC

Trial Ahead in Alabama Superfund Bribery Case

Steven Sellers

• No dismissal of indictment alleging executive, lawyers bribed state representative to quell EPA plan • $360,000 allegedly funneled to legislator in return for his efforts to stop Superfund site expansion

A jury will decide whether a corporate executive and two Alabama lawyers bribed a state legislator to head off a company’s Superfund liability, a federal court in Alabama ruled May 4.

The defendants allegedly sought to forestall potential environmental liability by paying the legislator to portray EPA cleanup plans as federal overreach—an unusual scenario in Superfund-related litigation that typically occurs in civil, not criminal, courts.

The grand jury indictment ...

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