A federal judge has sentenced the president of an environmental services company to more than six and a half years in federal prison for knowingly leaving asbestos at a suburban Chicago demolition site after accepting full payment for the purported remediation, according to a press release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Illinois.

Carl Fioravanti was the president of Alliance Environmental Control, Inc., a Lansing, Ill.-based company that performs asbestos removal services. In 2023, Alliance was hired to remove asbestos-containing materials ahead of a planned demolition of a largely abandoned medical campus in Waukegan, Illinois.

The owner of the site agreed to pay Alliance nearly $1.8 million to remove the asbestos-containing materials in accordance with laws designed to prevent people from breathing or ingesting airborne asbestos fibers.

During the purported remediation, Fioravanti fabricated air-sampling clearance reports that fraudulently stated that the site had been scientifically tested and was clear of asbestos.

Two months after Fioravanti certified the project as fully remediated, the property owner learned that Alliance had left enormous amounts of asbestos-containing materials throughout portions of the site.

Substantial amounts of the toxic materials had become commingled with ordinary demolition debris, the U.S. Attorney’s Office stated, releasing asbestos into the air and substantially increasing the remediation costs.

To date, the owner has spent more than $26 million on large-scale remediation of the property.

“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 EPA CID Acting Director Allison Landsman. “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.”

In addition to the asbestos-related fraud, Fioravanti also defrauded the IRS and the State of Illinois of more than $2.7 million in combined tax revenues by causing a tax preparer to file false individual and corporate income tax returns that greatly understated the amount of income Alliance and Fioravanti had earned from 2013 to 2022.

He pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal wire fraud and tax charges. On Sept. 10, 2026, U.S. District Judge Franklin U. Valderrama sentenced Fioravanti to six years and eight months in federal prison.