As the weeks and months drag on, all those involved in the W.R. Grace trial are beginning to feel tapped out – the judge, the jury, the lawyers, the daily courtroom observers, and even us reporters. We’re physically and emotionally taxed, and the microbes living in the ring around my collar are starting to get [...]
First, Locke lied under oath, according to the judge’s certitude. Then, it was revealed that prosecutors concealed evidence from the defense that could have used on cross-examination to show that the corporate insider had naked biases against W.R. Grace (Locke has a pending lawsuit for wrongful termination, which has been quashed by the company’s bankruptcy).
When [...]
At the behest of prosecutors, a federal judge dropped charges against yet another defendant in the W.R. Grace & Co. trial Thursday morning, leaving three remaining defendants and the company to contest allegations of corporate pollution.
Late Wednesday afternoon, attorneys for William McCaig urged prosecutors to dismiss their client from the indictment, arguing that evidence presented [...]
The show must go on.
Here’s the order.
A 45-year-old Missoula woman appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court and denied fleecing nearly $800,000 from the First National Bank of Montana.
Leslie Susan “Suzy” Stehr, a longtime bank employee, is charged with embezzlement and tax evasion. She has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges and is currently released on special conditions.
If convicted of both [...]
A federal district judge in Missoula ruled Tuesday that allegations of prosecutorial misconduct were not sufficient to scrap the environmental crimes case against W.R. Grace & Co.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy is still grappling with defense motions to acquit based on the government’s failure to prove its charges, however, and earlier in the morning heard [...]
Robert C. Walsh, a former president of Grace’s construction products division, makes a telephone call outside of the Russell Smith Courthouse in Missoula. Earlier in the day, prosecutors dismissed criminal charges against the former official, telling a judge that they could not prove allegations of a conspiracy to defraud the government.
Prosecutors in the W.R. Grace [...]
Read the lawsuit here.
Check out the full story in Saturday’s Missoulian.
This according to a news release from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is improperly withholding a long-sought report on whether the agency’s clean-up of Libby, Montana is adequate to protect the residents of that beleaguered community, [...]
Struggling to reconcile a recent wave of fame and national attention, the author shutters himself away in a remote newsroom library, longing for the obscurity from whence he came.
Between the interviews on ATC and Democracy Now!, I’m now exactly halfway to fulfilling Warhol’s “15-minute” premonition. It’s not exactly what I had in mind, but it’s [...]
Of the 53 exhibits prosecutors recently submitted as evidence in the W.R. Grace & Co. trial, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy excluded all but seven in an order signed Thursday.
The proposed exhibits are mostly documents and memoranda written by and dispersed to high-ranking W.R. Grace officials, including the five former executives on trial. The communique [...]