[net-gold] DISASTERS: CHEMICAL SPILLS : RIVERS : WATER : UNITED STATES: STATES: WEST VIRGINIA : WATER POLUTION : ENVIRONMENT: POLLUTION : ENERGY : HEALTH: ISSUES : BUSINESS: COMPANINES: NAMED COMPANIES: FREEDOM INDUSTRIES: Who Runs Freedom Industries? West Virginia's Chemical Spill Mystery
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:03:06 -0500 (EST)
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Who Runs Freedom Industries? West Virginia's Chemical Spill Mystery
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Who Runs Freedom Industries? West Virginia's Chemical Spill Mystery
By Paul M. Barrett
January 30, 2014
Bloomberg
Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/
west-virginia-chemical-spill-mystery-who-runs-freedom-industries
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/np7yjna
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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 Departments environmental-crimes investigation, the
presidentially declared emergency, and the National Guards arrivalnine
years before all of thatthe 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.
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Little known, even locally, Freedom was born and operated in a felonious
milieu populated by old friends who seemed better suited to bartending at
the Charleston-area saloons they also owned. These people who were running
Freedom Industries werent the sort youd put in charge of something like
chemical storage that could affect the whole community, Danny Jones,
Charlestons current mayor, says. Who are these guys, anyway?
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Good question. Kennedy kept the books for bars and restaurants, including
a rib house Mayor Jones used to own, although he hadnt gotten to know him
well. He was pleasant enough, Jones says. Until the spill, the mayor had
no idea his former accountant had been enmeshed with Freedom. That really
seems troubling, Jones says, especially with the cocaine stuff in his
history.
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Kennedys main partner was a college buddy named Dennis Farrell, who had
some technical background and took over Freedom after Kennedy went to
prison in 2006. By Farrells own account, the company, founded in 1992,
nearly ran aground on his watch. Only a rescue in 2009 funded by the
federal antirecession stimulus program kept the company going.
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The third member of the companys leadership triad, Gary Southern, has
served as Freedoms public face since the spill. He lives in Marco Island,
Fla., and says hed been advising the company for several years before
becoming full-time president in 2013. Not blessed with a talent for public
expression, Southern didnt mention in the first days after the leak of
10,000 gallons of coal-processing compounds that Freedom had been
acquired, only 10 days earlier, by Cliff Forrest.
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A different sort of character from Kennedy, Farrell, and Southern, Forrest
founded and heads Rosebud Mining, the third-largest coal producer in
Pennsylvania and the 21st-largest in the country. Hes a prominent figure
in his industry and an opponent of what he calls the Obama administrations
war on coal.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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