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Lawsuit: Radioactive waste killed Lewiston woman

Federal investigators found and removed thousands of tons of radioactive material from Philip Palmeri's home and a neighboring property in Niagara County.

Six months after his wife died from breast cancer, an environmental remediation team digging underneath Philip Palmeri’s Lewiston home uncovered “black fine grain radioactive sand, refractory brick, ash slag, and what appears to be lime.”

That’s not all they found. 

Over the course of a three-year, $7 million cleanup operation, the team removed 4,800 tons of waste from Palmeri’s and an adjacent property, some of it emitting radiation 50 times beyond what’s considered a safe or normal level.  

You can read the full story on Investigative Post's website

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