Deadly mining blast gets coal exec Don Blankenship a maximum prison sentence: One year

Grist
By Xian Chiang-WarenApr 6, 2016, 3:17 pm238 pts
Six years and one day after an explosion in Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch (UBB) mine killed 29 coal workers, a federal judge in West Virginia handed the company’s former Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship the maximum sentence for conspiracy to commit federal safety violations: one year in…

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