Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship was found guilty last week of a criminal conspiracy “to willfully violate mandatory mine safety and health standards.” I asked Uhlmann, Steinzor and University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett, author of Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, for their assessments of the Blankenship verdict in West Virginia, and to handicap the likelihood of criminal actions being brought against Exxon, VW and others. “The Blankenship case shows how prosecutors can successfully bring prosecutions against the highest-lev...