WHITE PLAINS – The president and part owner of IMS Safety, Inc. in Middletown, Joseph Mazzurco, 56, was sentenced Monday in federal court to three years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the New York City Department of Environmental Protection and the US Army Corps of Engineers.

IMS was also ordered to serve a five year term of probation and pay a fine of $500,000. Judge Kenneth Karas also ordered Mazzurco and IMS to each pay $1.1 million in restitution to the Army Corps of Engineers and forfeit $1.1 million.

IMS, which represented itself to be a firm specializing in regulatory compliance in the area of worker health and safety, was hired by DEP contractors to provide safety oversight at DEP construction sites.

Mazzurco and others involved made false representations including those concerning employees’ experience in the construction industry and with construction safety, and concerning employees’ training on rules and regulations relating to worker health and safety.