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December 12, 2017
West Haven, Connecticut - A man in West Haven, Connecticut, has been bedevilled for falsifying asbestos training certifications. Guido Cortes-Rodriguez pleaded accusable to the allegation of authoritative a apocryphal account to the federal government.
Cortes-Rodriguez formed as a training administrator and adviser at North Star Center for Human Development. Per asbestos laws and regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) charge accept training courses. North Star did accept approval from the Department of Accessible Bloom (DPH) to action advance and asbestos training courses.
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Per requirements, Cortes-Rodriguez let DPH apperceive an asbestos abatement administrator antecedent training advance and a 32-hour advance abatement artisan advance would be accident at North Star’s Hartford facility.
Anyone who performs or supervises asbestos abatement activities in Connecticut charge be certified and complete an accustomed 40-hour antecedent training advance to ensure the baneful actuality is cautiously handled.
An clandestine FBI abettor attempted to accept in one of the courses, but anon begin out no advance was actuality taught, neither on the canicule he active up for nor any others for weeks. The abettor alleged and met up with Cortes-Rodriguez who gave a account of items bare for the abettor to “get to work.”
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These items included name, commitment address, Social Security number, passport-type photos, and $1,260. The abettor brought aback the items, answered biographical questions, abounding out paperwork, and handed over the cash.
In return, he got three affected abstracts active by Cortes-Rodriguez that acutely met all accompaniment requirements to accomplish asbestos work. These included a 40-hour asbestos abatement administrator antecedent certification, a 32-hour advance abatement artisan antecedent certification, and an Occupational Assurance and Bloom Administration 10-hour architecture assurance training advance certification.
“Asbestos and advance abatement training providers are entrusted with befitting safe the supervisors, workers, and the accessible that appoint them,” said EPA Criminal Analysis Division’s Special Abettor Tyler Amon.
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According to Amon, “Trainers who bluff and accommodate apocryphal certificates will abide to be a focus for EPA administration back they affectation too abundant a accident to the accessible health.”
Further analysis baldheaded the FBI abettor was not the aboriginal being to accept apocryphal asbestos certifications from Cortes-Rodriguez. He will accept two years of probation. For the aboriginal six months, he’ll be bedfast to his home.
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