Freedom Industries owners indicted, charged in chemical leak
Source: Charleston (WV) Gazette
Four owners and managers of Freedom Industries have been indicted and charged with federal violations of the Clean Water Act for failing to operate the company in an environmentally sound manner, resulting in the chemical leak that contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people in January.
Dennis P. Farrell, William E. Tis, Charles E. Herzing and Gary L. Southern are each charged with three counts of violating the Clean Water Act.
Each man is charged with failing to meet a “reasonable standard of care” in running the company.
“Their negligence resulted in and caused the discharge of a pollutant, that is, MCHM, from point sources into the Elk River,” according to the indictment, unsealed today by U.S. Magistrate Judge Dwane L. Tinsley.
Read more: http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20141217/GZ01/141219335
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before the other side says, "a ham sandwich can be indicted? it doesn't mean anything."
I hope I don't have to add the sarcasm or irony emoticon.
... will these criminally negligent businessmen be given a free ticket as the pigs have been getting, i.e. "no indictment." In this world-gone-mad, it would not surprise me.
... and no time behind bars. 
... it's just the way they (business and Corp M$M) pull the wool over the West Virginians eyes. If someone wrote a LTE explaining to the public what the newspaper accidentally on purpose omitted, I bet you $5 they wouldn't print it. Any takers? All the newspaper did was signify that something happened, but they forgot to fill in the blanks. That's not the way to inform the public.
