JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The owner of an environmental laboratory in Mississippi has been convicted on federal charges of falsifying records on industrial wastewater samples that she was hired to test.
Tennie White was the sole operator of Mississippi Environmental Analytical Laboratories Inc.
She was convicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Jackson on two counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction.
Sentencing is Aug. 8.
The indictment from November 2012 says Borg Warner Emissions Systems Inc. hired White to test wastewater discharge at its car parts plant in Water Valley. It says White created three reports in 2009 that indicated testing had been done, when it had not.
The tests were used for reports submitted to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
