The president of an environmental services company received six and a half years in prison after he knowingly left large amounts of asbestos-containing materials at an Illinois demolition site after being hired to remove them.
58-year-old Carl Fioravanti of Lansing, Illinois, was sentenced by a federal judge on fraud charges after his company, Alliance Environmental Control, was hired in 2023 for asbestos abatement ahead of the demolition of an abandoned medical campus in Waukegan, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs.
Fioravanti and his company were paid $1.8 million for the service. However, two months after Fioravanti certified the site as fully remediated, the property owner discovered that large amounts of asbestos-containing materials had been left throughout the site.
“By falsely certifying that asbestos at an old hospital site had been properly abated, the defendant ensured that piles of friable asbestos wrongly remaining were cast about during demolition, contaminating the entire site and endangering workers and the community members,” said Allison Landsman, Acting Director of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division.
“Fraud under environmental programs does more than financial harm—it places real humans in danger and poisons communities. This sentencing underscores that there are criminal consequences for those who deliberately cut corners that endangers human health and the environment.”
More on Carl Fioravanti’s Asbestos Charges
According to a statement from the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois, Fioravanti fabricated air-sampling clearance reports certifying the site as fully abated, when in fact large amounts of asbestos had commingled with ordinary demolition debris and had become airborne.
When airborne, asbestos has been linked to serious health problems, including the deadly cancer known as mesothelioma, making it a significant danger to construction workers and members of the surrounding communities. To date, the property owner has spent over $26 million remediating the site after the incident.
Fioravanti also pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud and tax charges after defrauding the IRS and the State of Illinois of more than $2.7 million in combined tax revenues by causing a tax preparer to file returns that substantially understated his and Alliance’s income from 2013 through 2022.
The demolition subcontractor on the project, KLF Enterprises, has additionally received 36 health and safety citations from the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration due to violations found on the Waukegan site.
The incident further illustrates the danger construction workers can face from legacy asbestos when proper procedures aren’t followed. Occupational asbestos exposure is the leading cause of mesothelioma in men, and construction work is one of the top occupations linked to the deadly cancer.
If you believe your mesothelioma diagnosis was a result of occupational exposure, there is compensation available to help with treatment. Asbestos trust funds have billions of dollars to help compensate mesothelioma patients and are just one form of support.
Mesothelioma Guide can explain further about mesothelioma compensation for victims of occupational asbestos exposure.
Sources & Author
- President of Environmental Company Sentenced to More Than Six and a Half Years in Prison for Leaving Asbestos at Suburban Chicago Demolition Site. United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois. Retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/president-environmental-company-sentenced-more-six-and-half-years-prison-leaving. Accessed on 09/17/2026.
- Federal criminal charges filed following demolition of former hospital in Waukegan that led to ‘serious dangers of asbestos’. Lake & McHenry County Scanner. Retrieved from https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/12/13/federal-criminal-charges-filed-following-demolition-of-former-hospital-in-waukegan-that-led-to-serious-dangers-of-asbestos/. Accessed on 09/17/2026/
