Arie Eric De Jong III, owner of Diamond Environmental Services, admitted Thursday in federal court in San Diego to conspiring with the company’s chief operating officer, Warren L. Van Dam, to illegally discharge into municipal sewer lines the contents of hundreds of company trucks used to empty portable toilets.
De Jong acknowledged that he directed a contractor to install connections to sewer lines at the company’s facilities in San Marcos and San Diego.
In addition to the prison sentence, De Jong’s company was fined $3.5 million. If that judgement hasn’t been paid, now it never will be.