Feds charge Upper Big Branch superintendent with conspiracy

Post-Gazette Wednesday 22nd February, 2012

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia filed federal conspiracy charges against the superintendent of the Upper Big Branch mine, saying he impeded federal inspections leading up to the April 2010 explosion there that killed 29 miners. Gary May, 43, of Bloomingrose, W.Va., was charged with conspiring to block Mine Safety and H...

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