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Vepco had said at first it would pass the $60,000 fine along to ratepayers, the innocent consumers, but the State Corporation Board said no.
So this maximum fine, a paltry sum compared to the operating overhead and profit figures of this giant utility, will come out of the company’s profits. You can be certain that not one nickel will come out of the pockets of any of the Vepco officials who made “material false statements’’ to a Federal agency.
Equal justice under the law? A man in Texas, quite young, not long ago was given 20 years in prison for smoking one marijuana cigarette, and you can read the police files any day to find hungry people given jail sentences for filching food from a chain store.
Vepco’s offense is far more farreaching. In fact, it could reach tens of thousands of Virginia residents. Nuclear reactor plants are not supposed to be built over geologic faults; they’re dangerous en
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