Feds: Ex-Massey investors could benefit from delay

Published July 6, 2012 4:20pm ET



MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — To protect the ongoing criminal probe of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster, federal prosecutors want to withhold until January evidence that they say could eventually help former shareholders suing Massey Energy.

U.S. District Judge Irene Berger hadn’t ruled on the request by midday Friday.

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