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May 17, 2010

Massey Energy Facing Criminal Probe
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Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation of Massey
Energy, the owner of the West Virginia mine where twenty-nine workers
died last month. The Upper Big Branch Mine was operated by Massey
subsidiary Performance Coal.



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