Sunday, April 15,
2001
Former
air-quality official sentenced
The Associated Press
A former
executive director of the defunct North Ohio Valley Air
Authority was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison
for his role in a scheme to help a businessman get state
permits to operate a landfill.
Richard Canestraro, 68, of
Steubenville, also was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sandra
S. Beckwith to one year supervised release and fined $10,000,
said U.S. Attorney Sharon Zealey.
Mr. Canestraro had pleaded
guilty to a charge of public corruption for aiding Patsy
DeLuca in the unlawful acceptance of $169,750 in kickbacks for
three years beginning in 1994.
Mr. Canestraro succeeded Ms.
DeLuca as NOVAA's executive director in July 1995. Mr. DeLuca
and his son, Ronald DeLuca, and former NOVAA technician
Vincent Zumpano pleaded guilty and have been sentenced on
charges connected with the landfill per mits and to conspiring
to deceive the Internal Revenue Service.
Mr. Zumpano, 66, of Mingo
Junction, was sentenced to 15 months in prison, an $8,000 fine
and two years' probation; Patsy DeLuca, 66, of Steubenville,
was sentenced to four months in prison, four months in home
confinement, a $10,000 fine and two years' probation; Ronald
DeLuca, 37, of Athens, was sentenced to six months of home
confinement as part of his three years of probation and fined
$10,000.
NOVAA was dismantled in
September 1997. It was responsible for monitoring air quality
in six east-central Ohio counties.
The agency also helped regulate
landfills, including the Pine Hollow Landfill, which was
purchased by Robert Steve Vukelic in June 1994.
Mr. Vukelic pleaded guilty to
his role in the scheme and is scheduled to be sentenced April
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