Envirocare - Radioactive Waste Handler Fined

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Tuesday December 15 5:27 PM ET 

Radioactive Waste Handler Fined

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The owner of Envirocare of Utah, a 
radioactive waste disposal company, was fined $100,000 on
Tuesday but got no jail time in a plea bargain following his 
admission that he paid off a former state nuclear regulator.

Khosrow Senmani had admitted giving $40,000 to Larry F. 
Anderson, former director of the state's Division of Radiation Control
and pleaded guilty in July to a misdemeanor charge of aiding and 
abetting the filing of a false tax return.

Semnani said he hopes to negotiate with the U.S. Department of 
Energy for a return to Envirocare, which operates one of the
nation's three low-level radioactive waste facilities at Clive, 65 miles 
west of Salt Lake City.

The $40,000 was a small piece of the $600,000 in cash, real estate 
and valuable coins Semnani claims he paid to Anderson in 1993
out of fear of economic and regulatory reprisal against Envirocare.

Anderson has said the payments were for a legitimate consulting 
agreement and that Semnani owes him millions more. Their
relationship became public when Anderson sued Semnani more 
than two years ago.

Paul Warner, U.S. Attorney for Utah, declined to say if Anderson 
will be prosecuted. 

Sandy Perle
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