[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, CONTRACTORS: "Cancer among Bethpage [NY} family members result of Northrop Grumman toxic dumping"

[Lenny Siegel]

Suit: Cancer among Bethpage family members result of Northrop Grumman toxic dumping
Suit filed by the Cornett family seeks $100 million each for the husband and wife as well as their son and says the defense manufacturer should have known dumping grounds were "grossly contaminated.”

By Ellen Yan
Long Island Newsday ()NY)
November 19, 2018 

A Bethpage family blames Northrop Grumman's toxic dumping for three members' cancer in a federal lawsuit asking for more than $300 million.

The Cornetts have lived in Bethpage since 1984, within a half-mile from the defense giant's former manufacturing and research plant, according a suit filed Nov. 13 in Central Islip federal court. In a 20-month span, Cathy Cornett was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2015, her son Chris with testicular cancer that metastasized in 2016 and husband Bruce with prostate cancer in 2017, the suit said. 

The three have undergone treatment but bear the physical and mental scars as "captive citizens" who may be stricken with cancer again because they live so close to the former defense plant, the suit said. Only the couple's daughter remains cancer-free, the suit said.


…

For the entire article, see
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/cornett-cancer-northrop-grumman-1.23599919

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org