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Somerset: Brayton Point violated scrap order 11,195 times. Where its court case stands.

The latest legal hearing in the criminal lawsuit between the Somerset Board of Selectmen and St. Louis-based Brayton Point LLC, took place in the Fall River District Court on March 4 and ended with the filing of a fourth amended complaint.

 

In the amended complaint provided to The Herald News, Somerset submitted evidence in the form of a revised count of separate violations incurred when Brayton Point LLC “did operate its business in violation of a Cease and Desist & Order,” that is “subject to the penalty provisions of Town By-Law.” 

 

According to the town, a new total of 11,195 vehicular trips in and out of Brayton Point went on for 254 days between Nov. 20, 2020, and Dec. 15, 2021, in violation of a cease-and-desist order dated Nov. 24, 2020. There is one week notated as “missing” from the report, that counts no trips between Nov. 11 and Nov. 17, 2021.

 

Read more at heraldnews.com.

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