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kpete

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Sat Oct 17, 2015, 09:11 AM Oct 2015

Today In Capitalism. (On the trial of coal baron Donald Blankenship; there are audio tapes.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10...®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

(On the trial of coal baron Donald Blankenship)

The tapes offer a peek into the mind of a man seemingly consumed with his own wealth and frustrated with federal regulators and company officials who pushed for more attention to safety. The prosecution hopes to offer three more recordings, but on Thursday, defense lawyers asked Judge Irene C. Berger, who is presiding over the case, to block them.

-- In one conversation, Mr. Blankenship complains that Massey’s top safety official is too concerned with “the social aspects” of her job: “You’ve got to have someone who actually understands that this game is about money.” In another, he frets over a confidential internal safety memo — central to the prosecution’s case — that warned, among other things, of poor ventilation at mines and said Massey was “plainly cheating” in sampling coal dust, a health hazard and a fire accelerant. -
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/us/coal-barons-trial-may-turn-on-his-secretly-recorded-conversations.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&_r=0
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