Exec in West Virginia Chemical Spill Charged with Lying About Role
A West Virginia executive faces charges of lying to protect his personal wealth from lawsuits after his company spilled chemicals into 300,000 people’s water supply in January, according to a criminal...
View Article3 Executives Charged in West Virginia Chemical Spill Plead Not Guilty
Three executives charged in last January’s West Virginia chemical spill have pleaded not guilty in federal court. The pleas came a day after an FBI affidavit was unsealed, saying Freedom Industries...
View ArticleNew Charge Filed for Ex-President of Company Behind West Virginia Chemical Spill
A former Freedom Industries executive charged in a West Virginia chemical spill is facing a new federal fraud charge stemming from the company’s bankruptcy. A federal grand jury in Beckley handed up a...
View ArticleFormer West Virginia Chemical Company Execs. Request Delay of Trials
Four former executives of a West Virginia chemical company are asking a judge to delay their trials on charges stemming from the January 2014 chemical spill. Attorneys for former Freedom Industries...
View ArticleProsecutors Say No to Moving West Virginia Chemical Spill Criminal Case
Prosecutors oppose a motion by former executives asking a judge to move their criminal case over a chemical spill. In Charleston federal court May 29, prosecutors wrote that ex-Freedom Industries...
View ArticleJudge Won’t Recuse Prosecutors on West Virginia Chemical Spill Trial
A judge will let federal prosecutors keep working on a criminal case over a chemical spill last year in West Virginia, shooting down arguments that prosecutors should be recused from the case because...
View ArticleProsecutors Request Guilty Plea Hearing for Executive in West Virginia Spill...
Federal prosecutors want a judge to schedule a guilty plea hearing for the top executive charged in a massive chemical spill that contaminated West Virginia’s biggest drinking water supply last year....
View ArticleEx-Freedom President Gets 1 Month in Prison for West Virginia Chemical Spill
An executive who appeared unsympathetic when he spoke to the public after a chemical spill sullied tap water for 300,000 people in West Virginia was sentenced to one month in federal prison Wednesday....
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