Gary Southern Learns His Sentence

A former Freedom executive has been sentenced to one month in federal prison. Gary Southern also was fined $20,000 Wednesday in federal court in Charleston. Southern was the last of six ex-Freedom Industries officials sentenced on pollution charges after the 2014 chemical spill. Four others were sentenced to probation; a fifth also received a one-month prison term. The company, which filed for bankruptcy eight days after the spill, was fined $900,000, although the judge said the fine was symbolic due to the company’s liquidation.