Environmental Fraud: More subtle than midnight dumping

Environmental issues often aren't the focus of traditional fraud examinations. But this type of fraud goes well beyond illegal midnight chemical dumping. It includes such schemes as falsification of data, marketing fraud, inflation of invoices, and fraudulent insurance claims. 

A site owner responsible for environmental, health, and safety compliance for a manufacturing facility is notified during the course of a periodic and routine monitoring program that elevated levels of contaminants appear to be in the groundwater wells used for detecting contamination and migration from the site of pollutants. He's concerned that this might reveal poor housekeeping practices, or even illegal activities (such as handling prohibited hazardous materials), so the owner decides to engage the services of a laboratory that employs an acquaintance willing to be bribed.