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Jun 1, 2023 · In Kentucky, the lawsuit alleges a Justice company called Kentucky Fuel Corporation didn’t report all the coal it mined and owes $11,759 to the federal government as a result.
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1 day ago · A Kentucky company is pressing a federal court for relief at the expense of two of Gov. Jim Justice’s companies in a 12-year-old lawsuit in which the Justice companies have been found to owe ...
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. Steven Allen Adams can be reached at sadams@newsandsentinel.com.
Sep 24, 2019 · LONDON, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky handed down on order in a 2012 case against Kentucky Fuel Corporation and James C. Justice Companies in the amount of $35 million.
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- From Russia with Debt
- Stiffing The Lawyers
- The Money Chase
- Corporate Shell Game
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...
Nov 5, 2021 · Jay Justice, son of Jim Justice, governor of West Virginia, with whom he owns several mining companies, just announced the re-opening of four mines in Kentucky. The reopening announcement came ...
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Oct 24, 2019 · Companies tied to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice have been ordered to pay $35 million in damages over a coal deal in Eastern Kentucky that went sour. That amount includes $16.9 million to cover ...
