[FONT=Verdana]A Syracuse NY company must pay 4 million dollars as the penalty for illegally removing asbestos from local apartment buildings.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana]But a U-S District judge agreed to suspend 3 million of the fine as long as Longley-Jones Management Corporation uses the money for asbestos cleanup. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]Longley-Jones pleaded guilty last month to federal charges that its workers illegally ripped asbestos from 98 apartment buildings across Onondaga County for up to 15 years. [/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana]The company also was sentenced to two years probation.[/FONT]