Distillery hit with criminal charges over waste dumping 18th January, 2021 by Nicola Carruthers Virginia-based Filibuster Distillery has been charged with 115 counts of violating environmental state laws, including the alleged dumping of more than 40,000 gallons of industrial waste into a river. A stream in Virginia’s Shenandoah County has been allegedly filled with industrial waste from a distillery Filibuster Distillery has been indicted with 115 counts after a two-year investigation by Shenandoah County’s fire marshal Dave Ferguson and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). The charges were given to Filibuster Distillery, Filibuster Barrels, and Filibuster founder Sid Dilawri, by a grand jury and are the first criminal indictments related to environmental violations brought by the state’s office of the attorney general and the DEQ.