Citation

Klasfeld A. Enr (engineering news-record) 2011; 266(26).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, McGraw-Hill)

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Abstract

A Manhattan jury and a presiding state Supreme Court judge were to decide whether three construction managers on trial for manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in a fatal high-rise fire from April 2011 were to be sent to jail. Jurors began deliberating on June 16, 2011, after 10 weeks of testimony and attorney summations that differed on who was to blame for the 2007 Deutsche Bank blaze in which two New York City firefighters died. They are evaluating the fates of two of the defendants, including site safety manager Jeffrey Melofchik, 49, a former executive of project contractor Bovis Lend Lease, and Salvatore DePaola, 56, foreman for site asbestos-cleanup subcontractor, The John Galt Corp. Judge Rena K. Uviller was to deliver a verdict for the third defendant, Mitchel Alvo, 58, the subcontractor's project manager and for the firm itself.