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If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything other than run coal (i.e. build overcasts, do construction jobs, or whatever), you need to ignore them and run coal. This memo is necessary only because we seem not to understand that the coal pays the bills.

Source: https://www.desmog.com/2014/04/13/never-again-don-blankenship-funded-video-absolves-don-blankenship-blame-upper-big-branch-mine-disaster/

Source: Financial Post

From Howard Schilit's excellent book Financial Shenanigans (2010):

Recipients of CFO magazine’s respected Excellence Awards include the 1998 winner, WorldCom’s Scott Sullivan (currently in jail); the 1999 winner, Enron’s Andrew Fastow (currently in jail); and the 2000 winner, Tyco’s Mark Swartz (currently in jail).

Source: Howard Schilit. Financial shenanigans. Tata McGraw-Hill Education, 2010. [B164]

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