I’m never happier than when a chemical polluter gets indicted:
Charleston, WV – Gary Southern, President of Freedom Industries during the January 2014 MCHM spill into the Elk River, is facing charges of bankruptcy fraud, lying under oath and wire fraud.
According to the criminal complaint filed in federal court in Charleston, Southern lied under oath about his role at Freedom Industries prior to the spill in order to deflect blame from himself and protect himself financially.
FBI Special Agent James Lafferty II says in the criminal complaint that Southern engaged “in a pattern of deceitful behavior, which included numerous false and/or fraudulent statements about his role at Freedom, his role in the sale of Freedom to Chemstream, and his knowledge about conditions at the Etowah Facility.”
In bankruptcy court, Southern said under oath that his role with Freedom Industries prior to its sale to Chemstream, a Pennsylvania company that bought Freedom on December 6, 2013, was as a “part-time financial-type consultant,” and that his role in Freedom Industries sale to Chemstream was “superficial.”
H/t David Benowitz, DC White Collar Criminal Defense Attorney.
“In 1909-1912……I helped pacify Nicaragua for [an] international banking house…..I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests…..I helped in the rape of a dozen Latin American republics for the benefit of Wall Street [capitalists].”
Smedley Butler, Commander U.S. Marines, 1931.
Did Cheney and Bush believe that the people of Afghanistan and Iraq were too stupid to know history?
Did Obama think that the anti-colonial forces in Syria, Libya, Somalia, Libya, etc. wouldn’t eventually turn to al Qaeda and ISIS for help?
It becomes more clear by the day that those in the 1% (oligarchy) are the real “evil doers.”
So the real lesson is as follows:
Pollute the drinking water for 300,000 people. Eh, no biggie.
Lie about it. well then you are going to face prosecution.
What a wonderful legal system we got here in our little republic.