Trump Pardons Outhouse Kingpin Convicted of Illegally Dumping Raw Sewage

Trump Pardons Portable Toilet Executive Who Illegally Dumped Raw Sewage Across California Cities

President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to a California portable toilet company owner who admitted to illegally dumping raw sewage into city sewer systems, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from across the political spectrum. Arie Eric De Jong III, who ran Diamond Environmental Services in San Marcos, had pleaded guilty in 2017 to disposing of sludge illegally across multiple Southern California cities. Kenneth P Vogel broke the new…

'Birds of a feather': Trump stuns with new pardon of porta-potty exec and sludge dumper

President Donald Trump set off a stream of mockery and online backlash after he issued a full and unconditional pardon to a Southern California portable toilet executive convicted of illegally dumping sludge.According to New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel, Trump pardoned Arie Eric De Jong III, a 59-year-old executive at Diamond Environmental Services, a San Marcos, California-based portable toilet company. De Jong, the company’s owner, ple…

Trump Pardons Outhouse Kingpin Convicted of Illegally Dumping Raw Sewage

Alex Brandon/AP photo On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed a “full and unconditional pardon” for Diamond Environmental Services owner Arie Eric De Jong III, who was sentenced in 2018 to five months in prison for illegally dumping raw sewage into municipal sewer systems. According to prosecutors, the portable toilet company unlawfully dumped waste from its trucks into public sewer systems across several Southern California cities, including…