Commonwealth v. Lightman

OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

Appellants are a private, family-owned and run waste disposal company and its vice president (who owned 40% of its stock). At trial it was alleged that in 1972 Clarence Walker, a Streets Department bulldozer operator assigned to Philadelphia’s Fort Mifflin Landfill, entered into an agreement with Marvin Lightman (father of Jerome Light-man), president and principal stockholder of Lightman Drum Company. Under the agreement, Walker would permit Lightman trucks to enter the landfill to dump toxic wastes, in return for a fixed amount of money per barrel. From 1972 until 1975,…