Ex-coal mine CEO Bob Murray files for black lung benefits

[Major Nikon]

Ex-coal mine CEO Bob Murray files for black lung benefits — claims he is ‘near death’

Robert Murray, former CEO of Murray Energy, filed for Black lung benefits after fighting regulations for the disease.

According to West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported on the filing at the Department of Labor Wednesday, recalling that Murray and his company fought mine safety regulations aimed at protecting those in the field from the disease.

“I founded the company and created 8,000 jobs there until the move to end coal use. I am still chairman of the board,” he wrote on the form, which was obtained by the Ohio Valley ReSource, a regional journalism collaborative with WVPB. “We’re in bankruptcy, and due to my health could not handle the president and CEO job any longer.”

Murray, who uses an oxygen tank, said that he is still in the early stages of the disease and he’s consulting with experts “to determine the party potentially responsible for paying out the associated benefits.” The Labor Department requires such information to define liability.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/ex-coal-mine-ceo-bob-murray-files-for-black-lung-benefits-claims-he-is-near/

What a pile of shit. Said for years his lung disease wasn’t caused by black lung, but now wants benefits he fought against for his employees.

[Demovictory9]

1. at least have the shame to admit you hurt others with your denials

[elleng]

2. Couldn't happen to a more deserving 'person.'

[malaise]

3. THIS

He's genuinely evil

[AZ8theist]

4. Thoughts and prayers....scumbag....Thoughts and prayers....

[Botany]

5. This from the man who was a multimillionaire @ the time when he yelled @ and humiliated a women ...

... who had been cleaning his homes for years that she would like a dollar more per hour?

This from a man who paid Ted Nugget & Sean Hannity to come to an anti environmentalist
and anti mine safety party for his coal miners while he let dangerous conditions build up
@ his Big Branch mine which a few months later killed a bunch of miners?

[jaxexpat]

6. The hypocrisy is big with this one, I think.

He just couldn't face the future of coal production. Tragic, really. Not his black lung so much. But his whole persona, the headstrong manager flailing at facts and failures, an American classic along the lines of Elmer Gantry and Huey Long. The Kentucky Quixote, tilting wind mills to coal power. A bluegrass fed Sisyphus, pushing coal up the slope of a strip-mined mountain in "Eternal Futility", a small town just south of Paradise.

[panader0]

7. How much time did he spend in the mines?

He probably was in his office all the time, or on vacation.

[doc03]

8. All of his properties have a Trump flag. He needs

that Republican healthcare plan "get sick and die fast".