{"id":16435,"date":"2015-10-05T01:23:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T08:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16435"},"modified":"2015-10-05T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T08:23:41","slug":"the-fall-of-king-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/the-fall-of-king-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of King Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother Jones<\/span><\/a><\/strong> has an excellent article about the coal industry and one of its big players, Don Blankenship.  As the former CEO of Massey Energy Co., Blankenship is charged with conspiracy to violate safety laws, defrauding the federal government, securities fraud and making false statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission.  If convicted in this corporate accountability case, he could face 31 years in prison.  Not enough in my opinion for the misery and death he created and left in his wake.  Perhaps his golden parachute, nay platinum parachute he received from Massey Energy Co in 2010 when he left, will be taken back and distributed to the families of miners killed at a Blankenship operation.  That would be an attempt at justice for those families.<\/span><\/p>\n

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…he was a harsh taskmaster whose cutthroat management style transformed what was once a modest family business<\/a> into the region's largest coal producer<\/a>.  …<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n