Hearing Set Ahead of Freedom Sentencings

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing leading up to several criminal sentencings surrounding the 2014 chemical spill. U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston this week in Charleston scheduled the Jan. 27 hearing in the Freedom Industries cases, and wrote that the hearing will discuss the factual and legal basis for all pleaded offenses in the cases. Sentencings are scheduled in February for former Freedom officials Gary Southern, Dennis Farrell, William Tis, Charles Herzing, Robert Reynolds and Michael Burdette, and the company itself.