Ken Ford, the general manager of River View Coal in Morganfield, was pardoned for a 2003 conviction of making false statements to a federal agency.
Former President Donald Trump announced a pardon shortly before leaving office Wednesday for the general manager of a Kentucky coal company that is a subsidiary of Alliance Coal. Though announced Wednesday along with more than 140 other late recipients of pardons and commutations, Trump signed the pardon for Thomas Kenton « Ken » Ford on Jan.13, according a form posted on the U.S. Department of Justice website. Ford is the general manager for River View Coal in Morganfield, a subsidiary of Alliance Coal, the largest underground coal mining company in the United States. In the White House press release from early Wednesday morning, Ford was described as a 38-year veteran of the coal industry who « made a material misstatement to Federal mining officials » 20 years ago, then « pled guilty and served a sentence » of probation. More: Donald Trump grants clemency to 144 people in final hours The actual pardon document signed by Trump indicated Ford was sentenced to three years of probation in 2003 in Illinois, along with a $2,000 fine, for violating federal statutes related to giving a false statement to federal agencies and violating mandatory federal health or safety standards for coal mines. According to the press release, in the decades since his conviction Ford « has been an upstanding member of his community and has used this experience and his decades of expertise to keep miners safe, including promoting truthfulness and integrity with Federal mining officials, for whom Mr.
