First Female Makes the EPA’s Most Wanted List

A 39-year-old emigrant from the Dominican Republic is the first female to make the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most wanted list after failing to appear for sentencing. Albania Deleon made the list after being convicted of 28 counts of fraud for selling 800 fake asbestos-removal training certificates to foreign workers.

Ms. Deleon sold the fake certificates to undocumented immigrants through her company, Environmental Compliance Training, the largest asbestos remediation training company in Massachusetts. A branch of the company specialized in hiring temporary workers for asbestos remediation.

The immigrant’s would then file their fraudulent certificates with the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety and travel throughout Massachusetts and other areas of New England removing asbestos. Health officials soon began to realize the danger and shut the company down in May of 2007.

Deleon’s workers were paid in cash, avoiding employer-paid taxes owed to the Internal Revenue Services and workers compensation fees owed to the U.S. Department of Labor. The combination of these fees totals over a million dollars.

Deleon was convicted in 2008 and after failing to show up for sentencing she made the EPA’s most wanted list on April 2nd, 2009. The list was complied in December of 2008 and is a compilation of those who have committed “flagrant, severe environmental crimes.” Currently, there are 21 individuals on the list that have fled before facing prosecution for their environmental crimes.

There is a warrant out for the arrest of Deleon and could face up to 20 years in prison once caught. She reportedly wrote to a judge before her court appointment asking that she receive clemency and said she was, “humbled, ashamed and deeply contrite”. Her attorney, Carl Donaldson, declined to comment.

One Response to “First Female Makes the EPA’s Most Wanted List”

1. lynn hawkins says:

   February 7, 2010 at 5:34 pm

   she headed down there under the name Renee’ Senten