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Bookmark or Share- Don Blankenship - WikipediaBlankenship was paid $17.8 million (~$24.6 million in 2023) in 2009, the highest in the coal industry. It was a $6.8 million raise over 2008, and almost double his compensation package in 2007. Blankenship also received a deferred compensation package valued at $27.2 million (~$37.6 million in 2023) in 2009.
- Supreme Court leaves Don Blankenship conviction in placePublished 7:25 AM PDT, October 3, 2022. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it won’t review the conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship, who was found guilty of conspiring to violate safety standards at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch mine before the 2010 explosion that killed 29 men.
- Blankenship sentenced to a year in Federal prisonCHARLESTON, W.Va. – Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto announced that former Massey Energy Chief Executive Officer Don Blankenship was sentenced today to a year in federal prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. Blankenship was sentenced for conspiracy to willfully violate mine health and safety standards after a jury returned a ...
- Disgraced coal CEO lost races as GOP and third party candidate ... - MSNCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Don Blankenship hasn't had much success running for office. He ran for the Senate as a Republican in 2018 and sought the White House in 2020 as a third party candidate.
- Former coal CEO Don Blankenship is trying to win a U.S. Senate seat ...Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship is making another attempt to win a U.S. Senate seat, this time as a Democrat. Blankenship finished third out of six candidates in the 2018 Republican primary for Democrat Joe Manchin's Senate seat.
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