Fake School Poses Security and Safety Hazards

Encouraging students to falsify documents, handing out answers to the tests - the Senagryph Training Facilities, an organization which purports to teach how to safely remove asbestos, has had its credibility called into serious question. Undercover agents who posed as trainees at the NYC school discovered the instructors, who believed the agents to be illegal aliens, counseled the students to simply invent a Social Security Number for the school applications, use someone else's number or go down to Roosevelt Avenue where they could buy one. The agents also found during their licensing examination the instructor readily gave them the answers to 10 to 15 questions. After passing the exam an owner of the facility even went so far as to alter one false SSN, saying it had already been used by a previous student. All in all, the authorities allege Senagryph has granted licenses to hundreds of poorly trained workers, many of which went to work on Port Authority projects, such as the city's bridges, airports and tunnels. The Queens District Attorney remarked that this has "undermined the efforts of homeland security." He also attacked Senagryph for allowing students to go to work handling the "extremely hazardous material" without the proper know-how.

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