Dewine, Brown and Portman all sent letters asking for lax regulations at steel mills owned by Ukranian oligarchs
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman all wrote or signed on to letters advocating for more lenient restrictions at steel facilities in Ohio and West Virginia owned by Ukrainian oligarchs, ahas found. The oligarchs are alleged to have acquired a vast portfolio of American real estate and metallurgical assets with proceeds from an elaborate money laundering scheme.
"It would be extremely disappointing if the companies were forced to stop operating," the letter read, according to theAfter the letter, the EPA dropped a requirement that would have made the West Virginia plant install a costly pollution detection system. That plant, Felman Production, has been dinged with more health and safety violations since 2007 than any other facility in the Kolomoisky portfolio. The Ohio plant, Warren Steel, has 18 violations.
"There is no doubt that protecting the public health from hazardous air pollution is critical," he wrote,"but a proper balance should be struck to prevent job losses, let alone a risk of closure to local businesses."investigation. "Unbelievable," said Raymond Baker, a financial crimes scholar who has testified several times before Congress on money laundering."They were going through all sorts of gymnastics not to ask the questions as long as money was coming into the economy."
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