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- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family are being sued in federal court in Kentucky, accused of fraudulently transferring property to avoid responsibilities in a business deal that was the subject of a related lawsuit a few years ago. The lawsuit wants punitive damages of at least $16.9 million.
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Jun 1, 2023 · In Nov. 2021, Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas D. Wingate ruled that Kentucky mining regulators could collect a $2.9 million penalty from Jim and Jay Justice because they had not fully completed...
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Nov 5, 2021 · The state of Kentucky settled a lawsuit with Justice in 2019 over delayed reclamation on the Infinity and Bevins Branch mines, among others owned by Justice family companies.
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Jim Justice took over his family’s coal business in 1993, after his father died. Nonpayment suits dogged operations from the start. That year, two dozen miners alleged they weren’t paid wages and benefits owed to them, and the West Virginia labor department sued Bluestone Coal, the Justice family’s main company, on their behalf. The miners worked f...
Justice, however, earned goodwill from miners in 2015, when he bought back Bluestone Coal from Mechel. The Russian firm had closed some mines and laid off employees, and now, as a political candidate and mine owner, Justice was pledging to put miners back to work. The United Mine Workers of America endorsed him in the governor’s race in 2016, and i...
While past media reports — including those by NPR and Forbes— have noted two cases where Justice companies have failed to pay even their own lawyers, ProPublica found at least seven additional instances in which Justice companies were sued by law firms that had represented them. Taken together, the string of cases shows a pattern: A Justice company...
In court filings and interviews, parties in several nonpayment cases against Justice companies say that they have had to go to extraordinary lengths to collect debts on payments as obligatory as local taxes. By the summer of 2017, one Justice company owed unpaid property and mining-related taxes to Knott County in Kentucky, records show. The county...
In recent years, several plaintiffs have argued that Justice, his companies and his family operate what amounts to a complicated corporate shell game, moving money from one part of the business empire to another, all to avoid big debts, costly liabilities, even fines. Last year, after the appeals court upheld her contempt ruling, U.S. District Judg...
Oct 24, 2019 · Companies tied to West Virginia Republican Governor Jim Justice that allegedly broke a deal to mine coal face a $35 million judgment in federal lawsuit in Kentucky.
May 31, 2023 · According to a press release Wednesday morning, the Justice Department is filing a civil case against James C. Justice III, also known as Jay Justice, the governor's son, and 13 companies owned by Gov. Justice and managed by his son.
Nov 11, 2021 · Judge ruled Tuesday, Nov. 9, Justice must pay $2.9 million. According to the order, the Kentucky Energy and Environment may take bonds posted to cover reclamation work at several Justice-owned mines, revoke their permits, and require Justice to complete the agreed reclamation.
Sep 27, 2019 · Tatenhove ordered Kentucky Fuel Corp. and James C. Justice Cos. — owned by Gov. Justice and managed by his son, Jay Justice — to pay more than $35 million in damages and attorney fees to New London Tobacco Market, Inc. and Five Mile Energy, LLC.
