Ex-coal CEO sentenced to a year in prison over mine-safety conspiracy

Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, the man once known as West Virginia's "King of Coal", has been sentenced to a year in prison for conspiring to violate federal mine safety standards. U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in Charleston, West...

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