NCJ Number
145439
Journal
Heavy Duty Trucking Dated: (August 1993) Pages: 106-108
Date Published
1993
Length
3 pages
Annotation
An article from Heavy Duty Trucking which discusses the problems posed by persons who sell contaminated diesel fuel for use in trucks and residences.
Abstract
A lucrative scam being run involves the mixing of waste oil such as the sludge that forms at the bottom of residential and commercial fuel tanks and automobile waste oil with pure virgin oil and selling it cheaply as diesel or heating oil. State and Federal Government are cheated out of millions of dollars because no taxes are paid when these products are sold. Diesel engines in trucks cannot function properly with contaminated fuel and are destroyed. Serious environmental problems also result and people who use it as heating fuel may be poisoned by the polluted air in their homes. In the spring of 1993, several States including New York and New Jersey participated in the arrest and indictment of a dozen people involved in a New Jersey-based fuel selling scam. The bust which involved several alleged crime family figures and Russian immigrants was one of the biggest environmental investigations ever undertaken.