Coal CEO Receives One-Year Prison Sentence in Relation To ‘Entirely Preventable’ Deadly Mining Explosion
Hannah Gold · 04/06/16 06:35PMOn Wednesday, Donald Blankenship, former CEO of Massey Energy Company, was sentenced to one year in prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards, a misdemeanor charge he was convicted of in December. Blankenship will also be fined $250,000 and be subject to a year of supervision upon his release from prison.