Coal and criminality. We'll be getting the back story on this case in a few weeks. For the moment, awaiting sentencing: "So, is Don Blankenship ‘hardly a criminal’?" « Coal Tattoo (Ken Ward)

So, is Don Blankenship ‘hardly a criminal’? « Coal Tattoo
February 18, 2016 by Ken Ward Jr.

"As the public tries to understand how six former Freedom Industries officialsreceived a total of 60 days in jail for contaminating the drinking water for 300,000 people (see here and here for some of my efforts at explaining), some folks have naturally turned their attention to the upcoming sentencing in another of former U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin’s major white-collar criminal cases."

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