Radford Alexander Corporation, owned by Reginald Lathan, a former Darden School Foundation trustee, faces probation violation charges following a December 2000 indictment for Environmental Protection Agency regulation infringements, according to Rebecca Lonergan, U.S. district attorney for the central district of California.
Lathan currently serves on the Board of Trustees at the University of Southern California, where he was an undergraduate student.
The district attorney's office filed charges against the Los Angeles-based liquid materials trucking company in December 2000, alleging that the company illegally discharged pollutants into the Los Angeles sewage system, Lonergan said.
Lathan pleaded guilty and the company subsequently was placed on probation in 2000. Since that time, Radford Alexander Corporation allegedly has engaged in unspecified activity that has violated the terms of its probation.
"The probation department is moving to revoke [Radford Alexander's] supervisory release," said Thom Mrozek, public affairs officer for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
Mrozek said he was unable to discuss reasons for the probation department's actions.
Lonergan said yesterday she was "not at liberty to discuss the case further because it is an active case."
Neither Lathan, who resides in California, nor his attorney, Michael Lightfoot, could be reached for comment yesterday.
Even though Lathan no longer serves on the Darden Foundation Board of Trustees, Darden officials said they recalled Lathan's active involvement during his nine-year term on the Board of Trustees.
"He served three times on the Darden Foundation Board of Trustees, and he served very ably," Darden Vice President for Communications Phillip Giaramita said. "He was a very active participant of the Board and a very forceful spokesman for alumni and improving relationship of school with alumni."
Darden Foundation trustees are selected on the basis of their commitment to the school and generally are business leaders, Giaramita said.
"Trustees expressed interest in contributing to school either in governance or on the program side," he added.
Darden Executive Director Ray Smith noted the likelihood of regulation violations in a business such as Lathan's.
"The nature of the toxic waste business makes him subject to zillions of regulations," Smith said. "California has stricter environmental laws."
USC Spokesperson Zsa Zsa Gershick said she did not know enough about the case to comment.
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