Supreme Court Rejects Appeal by Coal CEO Convicted for Mining Disaster
The Supreme Court will not review the conviction of ex-coal executive Don Blankenship, the court announced Tuesday.
Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, was convicted of conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards following a 2010 explosion at a Massey mine that killed 29 workers in West Virginia. After serving one year in prison, Blankenship sought an overturn of his sentence due to alleged errors by the trial judge.
He wrote a letter to President Trump in May claiming “relentless and false attacks” on his reputation by the “liberal media” and urging the president to “expose the truth” about the accident.
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