The Daily Docket: Freedom Industries Ex-Leader Seeks to Disqualify P...

12/17/14
In this Jan. 21 file photo, Freedom Industries President Gary Southern leaves the company’s bankruptcy hearing in Charleston, W.Va.
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The former leader of Freedom Industries Inc., the company behind a massive chemical spill, wants to disqualify the federal lawyers prosecuting him for fraud on the grounds that they also suffered from the spill. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.

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