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Judge orders Sioux City man to pay $4 million fine for environmental crimes

November 12, 2021 By O. Kay Henderson

Recycletronics. (KSCJ photo.)

A former member of the city council in Sioux City has been ordered to pay a $4 million fine for committing what a federal prosecutor calls “environmental crimes.”

Forty-seven-year-old Aaron Rochester of Sioux City ran businesses  that promised to recycle electronic components. In 2018, the State of Iowa filed a lawsuit against Rochester, accusing him of illegally storing 12 million pounds of hazardous waste in Sioux City at the business called Recycletronics, and another 4.5 million pounds of waste at sites in Nebraska. It was mainly the leaded glass from televisions and computer monitors according to court records.

A Special Agent for the EPA says Rochester’s “disregard” for the laws governing how to properly handle hazardous waste “posed significant risk to nearby communities.”

In March of this year, Rochester pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of unlawful storage of hazardous waste and one count of transportation of hazardous waste. A federal judge issued the $4 million fine this week and sentenced Rochester to probation for three years.

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