Two days after being found guilty of faking concrete and steel strength tests at Yankee Stadium, the Freedom Tower, hospitals and schools, Reddy Kancharla, the president of the ironically named Testwell Laboraties, attempted suicide. Kancharla was looking at up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the top charge, enterprise corruption, and he believed that the jury would send back a guilty verdict on that, too—which they did on Wednesday. He slit his wrists and swallowed sleeping pills at his offices last Friday, but was found by his secretary and survived. Kancharla's lawyer says he's recovering and vowed to appeal.
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