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FISCAL YEAR: 2021
1. PRINCIPAL DEFENDANT: Mush Inn
D. Alaska 3:19-CR-00107
D. Alaska 3:19-CR-00107
2. DEFENDANT: Tae Ryung Yoon
D. Alaska 3:19-CR-00107
D. Alaska 3:19-CR-00107
3. DEFENDANT: Yoo Jin Management
D. Alaska 3:19-CR-00107
D. Alaska 3:19-CR-00107
Mush Inn and Yoo Jin Management jointly owned the Northern Lights shopping center. They contracted with Yoon in November 2014 to oversee an unlicensed contractor’s renovation of a boiler room containing asbestos insulation. The defendants knew about the presence of asbestos in the shopping center from previous renovations conducted by shopping center tenants. Despite this knowledge, they failed to submit any notification to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prior to commencing the project in January 2015. The contractor also failed to comply with the work practice Asbestos waste in boiler room standards as required by the CAA’s National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for asbestos. The
defendants’ actions exposed at least four workers to asbestos-containing material.
February 25, 2021
A court sentenced Tae Ryung Yoon, aka Thomas Yoon, Yoo Jin Management Company, Ltd., and Mush Inn Corporation for violating the Clean Air Act. The companies will complete three-year terms’ of probation and are jointly and severally responsible for paying a $35,000 fine and $48,054.09 in restitution for medical monitoring costs of the victims exposed to asbestos. Yoon will complete a two-year term of probation and perform 100 hours of community service.
CITATION: 42 U.S.C. 7412(h), 42 U.S.C. 7413(c)(1), 42 U.S.C. 7413(c)(4)
STATUTE:
- Clean Air Act (CAA)