A developer from Kansas City was sentenced this week for failing to properly remove asbestos-containing materials from a construction job at The Citadel Plaza Redevelopment Site. The developer, William M. Threatt, Jr., was sentenced to pay $10,000 and serve 5 years of probation that will include days spent at a halfway house and community service.

Threatt plead guilty to violating the Clean Air Act when demolishing structures contaminated with asbestos. The violations took place over the span of several years, during 2001-2006. Co-defendant Anthony Crompton also plead guilty and was sentenced to three years of probation. The Kansas City movers are glad that these men will be serving time and paying for their actions with disregard to public policy and construction hazard laws.