Settlement over $650,000 site cleanup in Rutland falls through

An attorney for the state says a Rutland businessman hasn’t lived up to a pledge to provide needed documents to finalize a settlement over the $650,000 environmental cleanup of his property.

Assistant Attorney General Justin Kolber has now asked Judge Helen Toor to hold a hearing to determine how much money John Ruggiero, the owner of the site of a former dry-cleaning business, must pay the state for the cleanup it did of that property.

The state cleaned up the site in 2014 after deeming it an “environmental emergency.”

Ruggiero, at a hearing in the case last month, told the judge he would give the state and the court a document listing other properties in the city he intended to sell to reimburse the state for the cleanup.

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