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Not sure if many have been following this case.Donald L. Blankenship, a titan of the nation’s coal industry whose approach to business was scrutinized and scorned after 29 workers were killed at the Upper Big Branch mine in 2010, was convicted Thursday of a federal charge of conspiring to violate mine safety that stemmed from the accident, the deadliest in mining in the United States in decades.
The verdict reached by a federal jury here made Mr. Blankenship, 65, the most prominent American coal executive ever convicted of a charge connected to the deaths of miners. He was accused of conspiring to violate mine safety regulations, as well as of deceiving investors and regulators; prosecutors secured convictions on one of the three charges. Mr. Blankenship was acquitted of acquitted of making false statements and securities fraud, but still faces prison time.
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