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Massey incest
Mining CEO so insinuated in W. Va. politics that they can't find judges to hear his case |
David Roberts |
20 Feb 2008 |
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| So, you may recall that loathsome mountaintop-removal mining outfit Massey was hit with a $50 million judgment a while back. They appealed it up to the W. Va. Supreme Court, which overturned it. Later, it turned out that Massey CEO Don Blankenship (an evil bastard) had been photographed frolicking with one of the judges in Monte Carlo, accompanied by, um, female consorts. So that judge dropped out of the case. Now the WSJ brings word that another judge is recusing ... |
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| Topics: politics, West Virginia, litigation, energy, coal, mining, business (all these topics) |
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