Three former executives of a now-defunct non-profit have been ordered to pay $1.8 million in restitution to 65 people who were exposed to airborne asbestos after their company directed workers to illegally remove debris containing asbestos from a former air force base in Northern California.
The U.S. attorney’s office said Monday that Joseph Cuellar of Fresno, Patrick Bowman of Los Banos and Rudolph Buendia of Planada had previously been sentenced to between 24 and 27 months in prison in the case.
The three men were accused of using high school vocational students to remove asbestos from the former Castle Air Force Base in city of Atwater between 2005 and 2006.
Their construction training company performed the demolition and renovation work to convert the former air base motor pool into an automotive mechanic training center.
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