Pence family oil co.

[ashling]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pence-familys-failed-gas-stations-cost-taxpayers-20-million/

Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million on the cleanup thus far, or an average of about $500,000 per site, according an analysis of records by The Associated Press. And the work is nowhere near complete.

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To assess the pollution costs, the AP reviewed thousands of pages of court documents, tax statements, business filings and federal financial disclosures, as well as federal and state environmental records for Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. The total financial impact isn't clear because Indiana officials have yet to release cost figures for 12 contaminated areas. Other records are incomplete, redacted or missing.

The public cleanup of more than 25 former Kiel Bros. sites in Kentucky and Illinois — where officials have done a better job keeping costs down — has been much less expensive, totaling about $1.7 million, according to an analysis of records obtained under each state's public records law.

Kiel Bros. has paid for only a fraction of the overall effort. In court documents, the company cited payment of $8.8 million in "indemnity and defense costs," but also noted that $5 million of that amount came from the states.

[Achilleaze]

1. How perfectly republican

privatize the profits, shift the costs onto taxpayers. The rich get richer (ha ha) and the public gets screwed. This is the basic republican modus operandi. That and (as we have all learned over and over and over) lies. Then more lies.