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A spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons says former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has reported to a California prison to begin his one-year sentence.
Spokesman Justin Long says Blankenship is in custody Thursday at a federal facility in Taft, California.
According to the Bureau of Prisons’ website, the facility is operated by a private corporation.
Thursday was the deadline for Blankenship to report. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier Thursday denied a motion by his attorneys requesting that Blankenship remain free while he appeals his conviction.
Blankenship was sentenced April 6 to a year in prison and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine for conspiring to willfully violate mine safety standards at West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine, which exploded in 2010, killing 29 men.
More money from the state of West Virginia is on its way to both of West Virginia’s food banks.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe troubled Mingo County Public Service District is under an order from the Public Service Commission of West Virginia to submit a 10-point corrective action plan.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFounded by assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA focuses its energies largely on college campuses like Marshall University. Mason County freshman Branson Tolliver is Marshall’s chapter president. He talks with Randy Yohe on the goals of this growing student movement.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia is slated to receive $100 million a year for the next five years, but there is also an application process for the state to receive even more money.
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