Wednesday, November 30, 2022

SENTENCED TO PRISON FOR BEING DANGEROUSLY STUPID AMONG OTHER THINGS

By Bob Walsh




Reuters file photo used for representational purpose
 
Carl Bradley Johansson, 64, owns a couple of trucking companies in SoCal.  Back in 2014 he directed two of his maintenance employees to weld up an  oil tanker that had not been completely cleaned and purged.  It blew up killing one of the men.  Johansson had spent 15 months in federal custody for a pretty much identical piece of stupidity back in 1993.  He changed the name of the company but continued to operate with equipment that had been ordered out of service.  
 
Johansson has just been ordered to do ten years as a guest of the people as well as pay a hefty fine.  Two other men, including his safety manager are also looking at federal time for fraud and conspiracy. 
 
In addition to the fraud and illegal repairs there was some income tax problems involved with the situation.  Johansson also apparently received almost $1 million in Covid relief funding fraudulently.   

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