By Jef Feeley, Bloomberg News
Former coal baron Donald Blankenship will stay in jail for now after an appeals court upheld his conviction for flouting mine-safety laws.
The self-described “political prisoner” didn’t identify any reversible errors in his 2016 trial on charges he ignored safety rules at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine, a federal appeals court said Thursday. The government began probing Massey’s operations after a 2010 explosion killed 29 workers at the site.
Blankenship’s conviction marked the first time a major energy company’s top executive was jailed over a workplace crime. He’s serving a year sentence at a ...
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