An excitement-filled day as prosecution rests and defense for W.R. Grace...
A lot happened in the Missoula courtroom of Judge Donald Molloy Tuesday. I’m just not sure what it all means. I’m going to bow to learned lawyers, reporters smarter that I am and just about anyone else...
View ArticleEPA releases memo on IG investigation of alleged wrongdoing by it people and...
After two years of refusing repeated requests for its release, the Environmental Protection Agency freed up some information on a preliminary report on alleged criminal actions involving government...
View ArticleAn organization for government environmental workers say a report from EPA's...
It’s a bit bizarre to me to be sitting in the back row of a Montana courtroom listening to another day of testimony in the criminal trial of W.R. Grace, while at the same time writing about reported...
View ArticleNumber of defendants in W.R. Grace case dropped to four plus the company....
By the time the jury gets to decide guilt or innocence in the W.R. Grace criminal trial next week, they will have far fewer charges to consider. Citing court-imposed restrictions that created the...
View ArticleThe Grace trial is almost over, but Judge Donald Molloy can change the...
Two workdays and counting until the jury in the W.R. Grace criminal case is presented closing argument and then huddles to render its justice. The past week was a kaleidoscope of colors and emotions as...
View ArticleW.R. Grace’s top PR executive says he didn’t lie, he just never saw studies...
For me, it was surreal to see W.R. Grace Vice President William Corcoran on the witness stand in the Missoula courtroom in the criminal trial last week. He is the boss of public and regulatory affairs...
View ArticleTruth be damned. Some watchers of the W.R. Grace criminal trial say two...
There is a slight lingering stench in the Missoula courtroom where the criminal trial of W.R. Grace is two days from going to the jury. Many blame it on the odorous performance of Grace’s star lawyer...
View ArticleW.R Grace defense lawyer says plagiarism proves prosecution witness has lied.
The last day of testimony in the W.R. Grace criminal trial began with the defense calling a former Libby city attorney and an ex-Grace accountant. Both were quickly questioned and dismissed. But drama...
View ArticleTestimony in W.R. Grace trial ends as defense fails again to prove that EPA’s...
Cutting two expert witnesses they had earlier said were vital to their case, the defense in the W.R. Grace criminal trial rested today at 3:10 p.m. and judge Donald Molloy quickly headed to chambers...
View ArticleSo much for transparency. Judge in W.R. Grace case repeatedly said debate...
Every two of three days for the last couple of weeks, Judge Donald Molloy volunteered that “in the spirit of full transparency” the debate over what will comprise the instructions to the jury will be...
View ArticleMolloy’s instructions to Grace jury had some weird omissions.
It took an hour for Judge Donald Molloy to give the jury its instructions. Most sounded like a straight lecture on the eight criminal charges in the indictment, and he asked both the defense and...
View ArticleThe future of the criminal charges against W.R. Grace are now in the hands of...
HEADLINE: After ten hours of almost non-stop closing arguments Wednesday, the W.R. Grace criminal case has gone to the jury. Looking around the courtroom, most lawyers, investigators, court watchers...
View ArticleJury acquits W.R. Grace of all criminal charges. Many wonder how it happened.
A juror wept as a clerk stood before Judge Donald Molloy’s bench and reported that W.R. Grace and Co. and three of its former executives were not guilty of charges brought by the government in the...
View ArticleGovernment is sending money to care for asbestos victims in Libby. Will W.R....
People in Libby, Mont. are through licking their wounds and are working to put the acquittal earlier this month of W.R. Grace and its executives behind them. But many say they live in fear that the...
View ArticleWhat a week for Libby.
Charles Dickens was writing a tale of two cities. But his words – that “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times’’ – perfectly describe the tale of one this week. After nearly a decade of …...
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