Author: Becca Schimmell & Jeff Young

Federal Prosecutor Charges Coal Company With Faking Dust Samples Amid Black Lung Surge

The U.S. Attorney for Kentucky’s Western District unsealed eight fraud indictments Wednesday against employees of the bankrupt Armstrong Energy coal company for falsifying dust monitoring samples in two Kentucky mines. “What the grand jury is charging and what the United States will prosecute is lying and cheating by a coal […]

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