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."