Businessman Fined After Admitting to a Payoff
<i> Associated Press</i>
SALT LAKE CITY —
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 after his admission that he paid off a former state nuclear regulator.
Khosrow Semnani 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.
Anderson, who has not been prosecuted, has said the payments were for a legitimate consulting agreement.
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