Bernie Sanders Sent a Bunch of Pizzas to the Coal Miners Blocking a Train in Kentucky

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18. Blackjewel is a corporation. The problem with this is that corporations

don't have to pay, and the company's owners and executives are free from any consequences.

Seriously. Here's what Blackjewel's Owner/CEO is doing these days:

Beyond payment due to the miners, Blackjewel and related companies owe the public hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, royalties, and fines as well as payments to creditors and vendors.

New findings raise serious questions about self-dealing by former CEO Jeff Hoops and his family – who are building a multi-million resort development in West Virginia. Hoops, and companies controlled by him and his family, are seeking $22.2 million for what they characterize as unpaid loans and owed royalties and rent payments from Blackjewel.

Hoops says that he is owed $11 million for loans he made to the company without documentation and apparently in violation of Blackjewel’s other credit agreements. Two other companies controlled by Hoops have filed claims against Blackjewel seeking a further $11.2 million in royalty payments and rent. The contracts supporting those claims are signed by Hoops as representative of both Blackjewel and the companies making claims against Blackjewel. The claims seek payment be sent to Hoops’s wife, Patricia, the namesake of Hoops’s planned resort.

This link has the whole disgusting f-ing mess. https://news.littlesis.org/2019/08/15/wall-street-former-ceo-seek-to-get-paid-while-blackjewel-miners-wait-for-back-wages/

This Hoops needs to spend some time in prison.