Pence Family's Shuttered Gas Stations Left Millions In Cleanup Costs To Public
Source: Talking Points Memo/AP
By BRIAN SLODYSKO | July 13, 2018 11:17 am
GARDEN CITY, Ind. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build a Midwestern empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the “front row of the American dream.”
The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells.
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.
The federal government, meanwhile, plans to clean up a plume of cancer-causing solvent discovered beneath a former Kiel Bros. station that threatens drinking water near the Pence family’s hometown.
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that bought fuel from Kiel Bros for years and never knew it was Pence owned. 
Greg "retired " after decades(since 1981) with Cummins just in time to run for Congress.
Cummins' PR firm was co owned by Manafort and Roger Stone connected.
Manafort finessed Pence into Trump VP slot.
Pence brought Flynn aboard & into Nat'l Sec Director slot
Mike Pence's foremost owners("donors"
have always been the Koch Bros.
Pence & his brother Greg seem to be swimming in "intersectionality" between Russia and the Koch Bros.
Now we find the Pence Family were "UrPolluters" and dumped their toxic cleanup on taxpayer for tens of millions. Gee...
How PutoKochian of them!
More than a decade after the former Indiana oil company of Vice President Mike Pence’s family filed for bankruptcy, taxpayers are bearing the costs of millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites, a report says.
Kiel Bros. Oil Co., once owned by the Pence family, left behind contaminated sites in Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois since the company filed for bankruptcy in 2004, the Associated Press reported. Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million on cleanups thus far, or an average of about $500,000 per site, the report said.
Kiel Bros. has reportedly paid for only a fraction of the overall cleanup effort. In court documents, the company cited payment of $8.8 million in "indemnity and defense costs," but noted that $5 million of that amount came from the states.
Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah dismissed the findings as "a years old issue" that the vice president has already addressed.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/14/cleanups-at-pence-familys-failed-gas-stations-costing-taxpayers-millions-report.html
