McWane Inc., a major pipe maker and one of the nation's most persistent violators of workplace safety and environmental laws, faced a new round of criminal charges last night after a federal grand jury in the company's hometown, Birmingham, Ala., issued a 25-count indictment alleging illegal dumping and other environmental crimes.
McWane Inc., a major manufacturer of cast-iron pipes and one of the nation's most persistent violators of workplace safety and environmental laws, is the target of a federal criminal investigation, according to law enforcement officials and current and former employees who have been questioned in the inquiry.
The articles and documentary described McWane as one of the nation's most persistent violators of workplace safety and environmental laws.
"Today's sweeping verdicts demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that McWane is one of the worst and most persistent violators of our nation's environmental and worker safety laws," David M. Uhlmann, chief of the Justice Department's environmental crimes section, said in an interview.
Earlier this week, the International Syrian Support Group (ISSG) co-chaired by the U.S. and Russia agreed to render persistent violators of the ceasefire as "fair game" on the battlefield, relegating them to the same status as the Islamic State and Jabhat-al Nusra, or the Nusra Front, which is Al Qaeda's franchisee in Syria.
The agreement also includes a critical-driver program and a persistent-violator program, which mandate that drivers will have their licenses suspended and eventually revoked if they accumulate too many violation points.
As a persistent and happy violator of the Constitution of the U. S. for over fourteen years, we look forward to the foolishness with a good deal of enthusiasm.
The investigation, which comes as members of Congress and regulators consider tougher laws for dealing with persistent violators, involves some of the Justice Department's most senior environmental prosecutors in Washington working with assistant United States attorneys in districts around the country.
The United Nations lists the Somali government as one of the "most persistent violators" in the world of using child soldiers, and this week The New York Times documented several child soldiers, some as young as 12, toting assault rifles and working for the Somali transitional government in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.
