asbestos-ravaged town has its day in court

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Isn't amazing what a real President with real Federal prosecutors can accomplish.


Decades later, asbestos-ravaged town has its day in court


By Josh Levs
CNN

(CNN) -- For much of the last century, people in the small town of Libby, Montana, were surrounded by toxic asbestos. It covered patches of grass, dusted the tops of cars and drifted through the air in a hazy smoke that became a part of their daily lives.


Federal prosecutors have begun a trial of the mining company they blame for the pollution, which doctors say left more than 1,000 people ill and more than 200 dead.

"There's never been a case where so many people were sickened or killed by environmental crime," says David Uhlmann, who helped spearhead the case when he was the Justice Department's top prosecutor of environmental crimes before stepping down in 2007.

"It's the most significant environmental criminal prosecution that's ever been brought."



http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/02/corp.pollution.trial/index.html

[Robeysays]

1. fuck yeah!

where's my phone?...

[HillbillyBob]

2. Another "everything is connected" WR Grace supplied asbestos

to every company it seems, even those making pipe insulation in the ship i was stationed on that was launched in 1961, the USS Enterprise.
Also W R Grace helped nazis escape Europe with the aid of the CIA or rather OSS. while transporting looted gold and treasures with John Foster DULLES as liason, this told me by former CIA folks.....