Having received $38.2 million in compensation over the last

three years, with a pension worth $5.7 million and $27.2

million in his deferred-compensation account, and a salary

continuation retirement benefit which will pay him $18,241 a

month for the next 10 years, Don Blankenship, the 'Dark

Lord of Coal Country', has retired. "I simply couldn't

afford not to," he says, adding, "Crime hasn't paid this

well since the days of Al Capone."