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Rockaway, N.J., Man Guilty of Forging Gas Purity Tests.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003

By Colleen Diskin, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 15--A former executive of a company that tests petroleum products faces up to five years in prison for conspiring to allow millions of gallons of gasoline to be falsely certified as cleaner burning.

Thomas M. Hayes, 51, of Rockaway Township was convicted Friday of fraud and conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act. The conviction followed a six-year investigation into charges that more than a dozen employees of Saybolt Inc. made false reports to the Environmental Protection Agency, a Justice Department spokesman said.

Saybolt's primary business was testing gasoline, petroleum, and petrochemicals to see if they met federal pollution standards. As...

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