West Virginia Mine Disaster
Don Blankenship was recently sentenced to prison, but that's not keeping him away from the presidential election.
"Working with what we we got, how can we make this year more meaningful?"
Dirtbag CEO Don Blankenship gets just one year in a case that began with 29 dead miners.
Tommy Davis lost three of his family members to the Upper Big Branch mining explosion.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Don Blankenship was sentenced to just one year in prison on Wednesday, but any punishment at all for mine safety violations is unusual.
Twenty-nine miners died in a 2010 explosion because of safety violations at one of his mines.
An explosion at one of his mines killed 29 men in 2010.
After 29 men died in his company’s mine, Don Blankenship is fighting to stay out of prison. But he’s already won the battle to convert coal country to his brand of conservative politics.