California trucking firm owner gets prison time for fatal tanker explosion, tax evasion and COVID-relief fraud

California trucking firm owner gets prison time for fatal tanker explosion, tax evasion and COVID-relief fraud

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/11/30/oc-trucking-firm-owner-gets-prison-time-for-fatal-tanker-explosion-in-corona-tax-evasion-and-covid-relief-fraud/

A Newport Beach man who owns several Inland Empire-based trucking companies was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for ordering a welder to illegally repair a tanker, resulting in an explosion that killed the worker.

The sentencing marked the second time that Carl Bradley Johansson was found criminally liable for the death of one of his welders. Johansson, now 64, was also sentenced Tuesday for tax evasion and fraudulently obtaining nearly $1 million in COVID-relief money while out on bond in the tanker expulsion case, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement.