United States v. Overholt

HARTZ, Circuit Judge.

Introduction.

Defendant Koteswara Attaluri was president of Allied Environmental Services (Allied), which was hired to take petroleum-impacted wastewater from several Department of Defense installations and dispose of it properly. Allied employed Overholt Trucking, owned by Defendant DeWayne “Mac” Overholt, to perform hauling incident to the project. The gist of the charges against Defendants is that they unlawfully injected the wastewater into disposal wells and tried to cover up their crimes.

Allied, Attaluri, and Overholt were convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 371 on a charge…