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Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin announced today that former Fairfield Public Works Superintendent Scott Bartlett, age 61, of Fairfield, pleaded guilty on Thursday, August 24, in Bridgeport Superior Court.
Court documents show Barlett allowed the illegal dumping of contaminated and hazardous materials at the property on Richard White Way in Fairfield from May until May June 2018.
The illegal dumping led to the testing and remediation of multiple parks and fields in Fairfield.
Under his plea agreement, Bartlett faces up to 15 years in prison, suspended after five years served, and five years of probation. The plea agreement also requires Bartlett to make restitution payments to the town of Fairfield for the harm caused.
Joseph Michelangelo, the former Fairfield director of Public Works, also pleaded guilty in 2022 to nine felony environmental and fraud offenses and is awaiting sentencing.
Barlett pleaded guilty to:
- Larceny
- Illegal disposal of PCBs
- Disruption of a solid waste disposal area
- Conspiracy to commit the following crimes:
- Receiving solid waste at an unpermitted facility
- Illegal Disposal of PCBs
- Discharging materials Into the waters of Connecticut without a permit
- Larceny
- Operating a solid waste facility without a permit
- Disruption of a solid waste disposal area.
He is scheduled to be sentenced in November.
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