Upper Big Branch Disaster
To those who lost loved ones at Upper Big Branch, the former coal CEO's Senate run in West Virginia feels like harassment.
The coal baron, whose fiancée is reportedly Chinese, suggested McConnell has conflicts of interest.
Don Blankenship is attempting to "shift the blame for a decade of death, destruction and despair," said union president Cecil Roberts.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
With Massey Energy's Don Blankenship in jail, coal companies are concerned about these tricky "law" thingies.
Suddenly, capitalism American-style looks a little more human and a little more fair, if recent developments on the business front become a trend.
"Working with what we we got, how can we make this year more meaningful?"
Dirtbag CEO Don Blankenship gets just one year in a case that began with 29 dead miners.