WHO ARE THESE GUYS?

摘要

Before the lawsuits and the retreat into federal bankruptcy court, before the change in ownership in a veiled roll-up by an out-of-state coal baron, before the Justice Department's environmental-crimes investigation, the presidentially declared emergency, and the National Guard's arrival-nine years before all of that-the co-founder of Freedom Industries, the company at the center of the Jan. 9 chemical spill that cut off tap water for 300,000 West Virginians, was convicted of siphoning payroll tax withholdings to splurge on sports cars, a private plane, and real estate in the Bahamas. And 18 years before that, in 1987, before he started Freedom Industries, Carl Kennedy Ⅱ was convicted of conspiring to sell cocaine in a scandal that brought down the mayor of Charleston.