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Former Safety Board Leader Faces Probe

by Glenn Hess
April 20, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 16

Former Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso, who resigned under pressure in late March, could face legal problems. Arthur A. Elkins Jr., inspector general of EPA and CSB, said last week at a Senate hearing that his office has notified the Department of Justice “of the possibility that Moure-Eraso may have committed perjury as well as other crimes.” Elkins said an unnamed former CSB official provided a sworn statement that alleges “inconsistencies in Moure-Eraso’s communications” to Elkins as well as with Moure-Eraso’s statements given under oath before Congress on March 4. Elkins was referring to testimony that Moure-Eraso provided in the course of the inspector general’s investigation of CSB’s e-mail record-keeping practices and during a hearing by the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform.

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