BINGHAMTON, NY (May 24, 2010) - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that a former city water filtration plant superintendent as well as a plant employee were convicted of illegally dumping sludge into the Susquehanna River. The river is the primary drinking water supply for Binghamton, Johnson City, and other downstream communities. Daniel E. Rose, 31, of Port Crane, a former filtration plant employee, was found guilty by Broome County Court Judge Joseph F. Cawley after a non-jury trial on one count of knowingly discharging pollutants into state waters (class E felony). Kevin E. Transue, 55, who currently resides in Florida and is the former filtration plant superintendent was found guilty of three counts of violating a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation permit that had been issued to the plant by failing to file a required annual report with the DEC (class A misdemeanor). Rose faces a prison term of up to 1 1/3-to-4 years and Transue faces up to two...