Ordered on Monday, June 12, by United States District Judge Thomas L. Ludington to surrender to the United States Marshal Service at 11:00am on Wednesday, July 5, Bradley learned he will be serving a 78 month stretch in federal prison for two federal convictions.
Judge Ludington ordered Bradley to serve the 18 month sentence consecutive to his 60 month asbestos sentence, the bottom of the acceptable guideline range.
In a sentencing memorandum filed June 7 by Mark Satawa, Bradley's attorney, asked for leniency due to his difficult childhood and severe medical issues.
Bradley was found guilty on December 2, 2014 of four counts of illegally distributing and handling asbestos, in violation of the Clean Air Act. Bradley's co-defendant, Gerald A. Essex [AKA 'Bark'], was acquitted on the same four charges. Bradley's business, Lasting Impressions/Thunder Builders, was hired by contrepreneur Steven J. Ingersoll to renovate a former church building at 400 N. Madison Avenue and convert it into the Madison Arts campus for the Bay City Academy.
The jury found that Bradley “failed to remove asbestos before beginning to demolish and renovate the building, failed to adequately wet and keep wet asbestos until proper disposal, failed to ensure that a person trained in the proper procedures for handling asbestos was on-site when asbestos was disturbed, and failed to ensure that asbestos-containing waste was disposed of properly”.
Ludington sentenced Bradley to up to five years' imprisonment on March 12, 2015, and ordered Bradley to pay restitution to his workers, though the amount was not disclosed by the United States Attorney's Office.
However, although it was determined through his federal tax fraud case that Bradley had stiffed United States taxpayers (via the Internal Revenue Service) out of a whopping $934,675.28, Ludington ordered him to pay a mere $54,135.52 in restitution.
Left unaddressed were the sentences Bradley's victims (and Steven Ingersoll's victims) are now facing for exposure to asbestos during the renovation at the Bay City Academy's now-shuttered Madison Arts campus.
Rat bastards.
