"According to prosecutors, the portable toilet company unlawfully dumped waste from its trucks into public sewer systems across several Southern California cities, including San Diego, San Marcos, Fullerton, Perris, and Huntington Park, rather than disposing of it at approved facilities and paying the required fees, allowing De Jong III to dodge millions in expenses."
"While De Jong III was only sentenced to five months behind bars in 2018, Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie Pierson advocated for a 12-month sentence, telling the judge that he's a thief, pure and simple. According to De Jong III at the time, his actions were a huge mistake. He told U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez that he never thought [the scheme] would get to this level."
President Donald Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Arie Eric De Jong III, owner of Diamond Environmental Services, clearing him of all federal felony charges to which he had pleaded guilty under a 2017 agreement. Prosecutors said the company dumped raw sewage from portable toilet trucks into public sewer systems across several Southern California cities, avoiding approved disposal facilities and fees and dodging millions in expenses. De Jong was sentenced in 2018 to five months in prison; prosecutors had sought 12 months. The company faced probation, $2.64 million in fines, $2.25 million restitution, and $2.2 million forfeiture. The pardon joins other clemency actions by Trump.
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