Posted on 08/03/2007 7:55:37 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
The Jackson Heights training school was supposed to teach students to safely remove asbestos.
Instead, it was a sham, prosecutors said.
Instructors gave students correct answers during tests and encouraged students -- most of whom were undocumented immigrants -- to use false Social Security numbers in state licensing examinations, authorities said.
…and many of them went to work on security-sensitive local government projects, prosecutors said.
More than 80 percent of the Queens school's students used false identification to get certificates, then went to work on Port Authority projects, which "undermined the efforts of homeland security and gave individuals access to the city's bridges, tunnels and airports,
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Investigators sent undercover detectives to Senagryph in October 2005 to take an asbestos training course. There, they were handed applications by an instructor who, believing they were in the country illegally, advised them to write made-up Social Security numbers on school applications, prosecutors said.
The instructor said they could use someone else's number or buy one on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights ….
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Aside from the frightening Homeland Security aspects, who thinks these “graduates” are actually safely removing asbestos? A service for which an arm and a leg is charged.
Isn't that the domain of Mrs. Charles Schumer... ???
Asbestos removal is not exactly rocket science, but if it is not done right it can easily contaminate an entire building.
Realistically speaking this may not pose a huge health risk to the occupants, but if it happens the cost of fixing it goes up exponentially. A blown project can get VERY expensive.
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