ALBANY -- A federal judge in Albany has been asked to release an inmate convicted of asbestos-removal fraud — including cases in Central New York — long enough for him to donate a kidney to his 9-year-old son. Asbestos contractor Alexander Salvagno is serving a 25-year sentence for environmental crimes. Both he and his father are behind bars at the...
ALBANY -- A federal judge in Albany has been asked to release an inmate convicted of asbestos-removal fraud — including cases in Central New York — long enough for him to donate a kidney to his 9-year-old son.
Asbestos contractor Alexander Salvagno is serving a 25-year sentence for environmental crimes. Both he and his father are behind bars at the federal prison in Fort Dix, N.J.
The Associated Press reports Salvagno’s son, Alexander Jr., is suffering from kidney failure and needs a transplant by July.
Salvagno and his father were convicted of racketeering conspiracy in 2004 for falsifying lab reports and cutting corners on more than 1,500 asbestos-removal projects across New York. AAR Contractor Inc. of Latham, was accused of running a racketeering conspiracy for more than a decade, putting workers and the public at risk by exposing them to asbestos.
AAR’s larger clients locally included the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology in Syracuse, the James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant in Scriba and the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Lysander.