What a god damn insult for the family members of the DEAD 29 miners!
Donald L. Blankenship, a coal executive, has been sentenced to a year in jail, 6 years after a disaster killed 29 miners
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 12:27 PM EDT
Donald L. Blankenship, whose leadership of Massey Energy Company transformed him into one of the wealthiest and most influential men in Appalachia, was sentenced on Wednesday to a year in prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards.
The sentencing, in Federal District Court, came six years and one day after an explosion tore through Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine, killing 29 people. Although Mr. Blankenship was not accused of direct responsibility for the accident, the deadliest in American coal mining in about 40 years, the disaster prompted the federal inquiry that led to Mr. Blankenship’s indictment.
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