The Dallas Morning News reported on June 2, 2008, that Gerald Lakota, a former environmental compliance employee at the Fujicolor facility in Terrell, Texas, plead guilty to federal charges of falsifying water sample reports in an effort to hide the amount of silver which the facility was discharging into the local watershed. Lakota could potentially receive up to five years in prison along with five years of supervised release and a $250,000.00 fine.
The falsified reports were discovered during an internal investigation by the company. Fujicolor began the internal investigation as a result of a $100,000.00 fine from the City of Terrell for releasing the silver-laden water into the city