A string of legal challenges against the West Virginia governor shows that the coal baron’s sprawling business enterprise is struggling to pay its bills as he vies to unseat Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.
Justice has spent little time at his office in the state Capitol and devoted significant time to his private businesses.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which has not endorsed a candidate in the West Virginia primary, shot back that Biden’s administration has gone “totally rogue.” But the boom times for coal are fading, and Justice’s company lawyers admit his empire is suffering as a result.of its primary coal-related business, Bluestone Resources, to settle more than $850 million in debt from personally backed loans, The Wall Street Journal reported in March.
In a second case, Pennsylvania-based Xcoal Energy Resources asked a federal judge in West Virginia last month to have U.S. marshals seize $1.8 million from Justice personally,In that case, a judge determined that Justice family companies did not deliver more than 70,000 tons of coal owed to Xcoal. Two of Justice’s companies —– Southern Coal Corp. and Bluestone Energy Sales Corp.
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