The former project supervisor for the Rhode Island Department of Transportation Route 6-10 Connector construction site in Providence is avoiding federal prison.
The Justice Department says Dennis Ferreira was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a fine of 40-thousand dollars.
He was charged with making a false statement in connection with a federally-funded highway project.
Prosecutors say Ferreira was involved in the dumping of contaminated fill at the site.
The lead contractor, Barletta Heavy Construction of Canton, Massachusetts, had to pay a fine of a half-million dollars.
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