The Asbestos Lawsuits Were Proven Right From the Start, the Plan then Become How to KEEP Victims Down and Profit from it.

"" The asbestos suits, however, were a different kind of legal action.

For one thing, there were more of them;

for another, they dealt not only with damage done, but with potential injury as well. The trouble had been brewing for a while.

As far back as 1985, Matthew Schifrin reported in Forbes that gypsum suppliers, including W.R. Grace as well juggernaut USG, could expect a flood of litigation in the wake of a high-profile personal injury suit related to asbestos, and in fact the first asbestos-related suit had been filed against Grace in 1982.

In 1994, Grace settled charges of violating asbestos standards at its Libby, Montana tremolite mine, for over half a million dollars; in 2000, the EPA ordered Grace to spend an additional $5 million to clean up the site.

Then, in 1999, Grace was party to a $200 million settlement to residents of Cook County, Illinois, who were exposed to asbestos in the 1960s and 1970s.

On October 5, 2000, Owens Corning, the United States' largest building materials manufacturer, filed for bankruptcy.

While this did not affect Grace's fortunes directly, it did cause a general fall in stock prices among companies with asbestos liability--including Grace.

More serious, however, was how removal of players from the field affected those remaining;

as Merrill Lynch analyst Karen Gilsenan put it in Chemical Market Reporter, "Grace and the other remaining players could face increased liability ... co-defendants in many of these cases could end up shouldering a larger part of the financial burden."

As of June 30 that year, Grace was named in over 53,000 asbestos lawsuits and had paid out a total of $1.15 billion in judgments and settlements.

By April of the following year, that amount had risen to $1.9 billion, and the number of personal injury claims against the company topped 325,000. ""

Source of Above Post
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/WR-Grace-amp;-Company-Company-History.html

Grace Admits Guilt and Montana Corrupt Judges Say NOT GUILTY..

Any Settlement SHOULD not have Went to the State of MONTANA.. the victims never got relief.. only the Political Corruption Got those Millions and Still Get those Millions WHILE Victims Still SUFFER....

As We Get Deeper into this WR Grace Thing.. as with ALL my Stories.. on my Industry Whistleblower Blog Network - PRINT the Source, Go to Page in Upper Right and save page.. the SOURCE changes after I draw attention to it.. So Back it Up.. and Print it..

Also Print My Post if you Like it.. as I have had Corrupt Zillionaires Like Proskauer Rose LLP, ... well it seemed that way to me.. they Paid off Google to change the Search.. So WR Grace .. that kind of Money.. the More You send me tips and the more I post .. the more they will CHANGE the Internet Reality of it all...

Also Please Note My Email Response Time is sometimes a week. .and to HATE .. well I respond by posting it.. oh and Praying...

posted here by
Crystal L. Cox
Investigative Blogger
Crystal@CrystalCox.com

Who is Funding the Blatant Corruption in the State of Montana that ALL know About and Fear? Who Funds U of M and Missoula County Corruption?

The State of Montana has Corruption down to a fine art..
and the TRUTH is Certainly No Defense.

For Example the Judicial Hell Holes of Hamilton Montana, Ravalli County and Libby Montana, Lincoln County THEY have tons of Money to Spread to the Elite that are in the Ring of Corruption, if your NOT in this Special Group of Politicians, Some Cops, Some Commissioners ... Some JP's , Some District Court Judges ... Well if your not ONE OF Them .. THEN you are Faced with Economic Terrorism.

You will lose your Business, your Family will be threatened, you will be set up for texting.. noise pollution. .calling the cops about an intruder and them arresting YOU..... you will be run out of town.. and well you will not be able to Pay Your Bills or Feed your Family and if that Don't Work - well then you will Get set up on some Fake.. absolutely made up Charge in a Corrupt Montana District Court. .

oh and you Can bet that the Corrupt Montana Supreme Court will Back up Montana District Court as NO One Dare Cross anyone Else in this Corruption Club in the State of Montana... other wise YOU ARE Out.. no more Free Money.. they Know Secrets on you or your Family in which they WILL use against you.. or you WILL spend a Night or Two in a Montana Jail and Become one of those Now Famous "Montana Suicides" .

So Where Does this Money Come from that pays this Amazing Wall of Corruption in the State of Montana - Well for One and Believe Me there will be Lots more on this Soon to be Multi-Billion Dollar Medicaid Whistleblower Lawsuit... anyway.. WR Grace Doctors are Of Course Corrupt - no Brainer there.. and Well WR Grace Pays for those Corrupt Doctors to tell you that .. well turns out you don't really have Asbestos.. Mesothelioma .. Oops Our Mistake.. ok so Turns Out that your Dad Died of "Natural Causes" so .. Yee Haw.. no Wrongful Death Lawsuit there..

oh and the Corrupt Doctors.. and Corrupt Insurance Companies bought and Paid for by WR Grace well they are Paid also by Medicaid Right.. there is a Scam on Medicaid Whereby WR Grace actually Defrauds Medicaid.. Much More on that Later.. Lots MORE !!
Got a Tip? - Crystal@CrystalCox.com

Good Attorneys Seem to Be afraid of Montana Corruption and WELL definitely afraid of WR Grace.. See I Suspect - In My Opinion that Hamilton Corruption is well funded through NIH - which has connections to the VERY Corrupt Foley and Lardner Law Firm and Micheal Grebe .. more on that Super Power later.. this is also VERY connected to Homeland Security Money.. funding which is part of the Money that Lincoln County Law Enforcement gets to Drive around and do NOTHING to eat up over time.. on the Ol' "Government Dime" - aKa Your Tax Dollars..

Montana Corruption is also funded by Tons of Plea Bargains.. another Words kind of a "Pay to Play" so instead of Jail Time you PAY .. and YOUR Guilt well WHO cares. .kind of the Judicial Hell Hole Motto.. "THE Truth is No Defense" !!

So another factor in WR Grace is Connections to the Number One Corrupt Law Firm in the WORLD - Proskauer Rose LLP - now the Kind of Money that Proskauer Rose deals in is Hundreds of BILLIONS of "Other People's Money" EVERY Year.

Got a Tip on Proskauer Rose - WR Grace Connections?
Crystal@CrystalCox.com
Where there is Murder and Billions ..
There is Proskauer Rose Law Firm ...

And so to Keep Montana Politicians KEEPING you Down, and to Keep Montana Courts Easily Raking in Your MONEY and Prosecuting Whoever They Please based on .. WELL not the LAW or the TRUTH.. I guarantee that.. but Based on .. Well Whatever they Damn Well Please.. on Favors Owed.. Secrets Knowm.. and WHO can "Pay to Play" ... Oh and METH well a Montana Meth Dealer .. can Make at Least, according to my sources.. $15,000 in 3 days.. So those you who Do Obey the Montana Laws.. well Guess What, SORRY.. you Cannot Afford to Pay to Play .. therefore you are Guilty .. Do NOT Pass Go .. Do not Collect $200 .. Straight to Jail.. Plain and Simple ..

What Good is Telling the Whole Truth and NOTHING but about the Evil Deeds of Montana Politicians and WR Grace ?

The Truth may Be absolutely Irrelevant in Hamilton Montana and in Libby Montana ... the TRUTH may be No Defense in a Montana Court Room where Plea Bargains are not based in Law and Proven Fact but on How Much you Can Pay for your "Montana Plea Bargain" ..

Montana Citizens may be to Scared to STAND up for What is Right... and Well No One May Believe Me.. However Still I Stand and Still I tell you the TRUTH.. it is YOUR Truth..

As your Local News Media and State Media LIES to You. .and Well Most Montanans NEED to believe the LIE.. I get it. .for if you Stand up For Rape Victims, if you Stand up for Real Estate Victims, if you Stand up For Children Violated, if You Stand up against Cops that Take Sex in Trade of a Ticket with Young Girls, if you Stand up for the Actual Law . .and the TRUTH .. well your Set Up.. Beat Up. .Cuffed and Stuffed.. and that's if YOUR One of the Lucky Ones..

So I get Your Fear in Not Speaking Up. . All these years. .

I get your FEAR of not Signing the
Recall for Sheriff Anderson
Even after you TOLD me to my Face
you Know it is the RIGHT thing to Do and you
Admire Us for Standing up for the Truth, and for
Speaking for Victims Who have NO Voice...

I GET IT !!

I don't Blame Ya..
But Folks ..
That Was Then and This is Now..

And Now ...

Silence is Betrayal

Enough is Most Certainly ENOUGH !!!

The Montana Supreme Court, Missoula County Judges, Lincoln County Courts, Ravalli Count Courts.. well they may be Corrupt and they may Stand with the Criminal WR Grace - But that Will NEVER Change the FACT that the State of Montana has Known for Decades of the Horror WR Grace brought to "Our People" and the State of Montana Protected WR Grace, as they Do to This Day. . you See BEING Paid Pays REALLY Good .. and Well Billions of Dollars is MORE important then the Quality of Life of the Montana Taxpayers..

This is NOT So to me..

TO Me there Will be No WR Grace Death that will Die in Vain, the Truth Will Roar and Every Politician and Judge over Decades that Helped WR Grace Torture and Kill our People with a Horrific - Painful Disease .. Well they will ALL Be Exposed.

This will never end the Suffering.. I Get that..

this TRUTH Telling will NEVER bring back those who have died those Slow Painful WR Grace Deaths, However the TRUTH will set many of those family members free as they suffer in the Need for Justice... as they watch more die a Slow painful death from something that the State of Montana knew all along would happen.. and when Libby gets those Millions of Corrupt Dollars from the Corrrupt Max Baucus and Cronies - Well the Greedy Politicians and Corrupt Court System divides it up to those who they protect.. or favor for a multi-tude of reasons and the WR Grace Victims They Get NONE.. .. My Uncle Died last November.. never did even get a Portable Oxygen Tank.. and a NEW 6 Million to the Corrupt COUNTY of Lincoln County Montana where there are NO real Jobs because the Commissioner just did not see this End to The Timber Industry Coming.. they Rejected Cambell's Soup Compay.. they LIKE Mining.. because the Pay off to Corrupt Politicians is Better..

In Lincoln County Montana, Real Estate Taxes are Sky High, and As a Broker Owner let me Tell you . .YOU will NOT be selling for their Current Tax Base. .oh but you will PAY or the Corrupt Lincoln County MONTANA will Take YOUR Land. .oh and in these.. Taxes Up.. no Job times for Lincoln County Montana .. Well Wouldn't Ya KNOW .. Surprise ... The Commissioners Get a Raise.

So .. Where is that MONEY.. for the WR Grace Victims ???

Demand an Accounting of EVERY Dime the Corrupt Courts, Cops, Detectives, Social Services, CPS, County Clerk, Commissioners.. GOT .. how did they Spend Every DIME ever Given From WR Grace.. or Shall I Say given by Baucus so as to SHIFT Blame from the Evil WR Grace. Montana - You have a RIGHT to KNOW where every Dirty Dime Went..

The WR Grace Victims and Their Families Suffer in the Dark..
and I Say NO MORE..

NOT on My Watch, Plain and Simple..

I Will Continue to GIVE Voice to Victims..
whether the Montana Courts, JPs, Judges, Cops..
Continue to Threaten Me, Endanger My Life,
Set Me Up or NOT !!

It's Time Folks.. WR Grace Had Better Rattle them Newspapers, Politicians, Cronies and PR Geniuses they Pay Off So Well. Cuz it is Bout' Time for a "Come To Jesus Party" for WR Grace.

For the Latest Corruption SCANDAL within the EVIL Wall of Corruption of WR Grace and Enabled by Tester and Baucus and YOUR Montana Tax Dollars.. this will take the homes and savings of everyone ever involved in covering up this 3 Decade old Scandal..

The Latest is THE Illegal, Corrupt, Fraudulent Changing of THE "Cause of Death" by Corrupt WR Grace Doctors, and the Flat Out Lies of WR Grace Paid For and Bought off Insurance Companies..

Enough is So Far Way Past Enough...

Every Commissioner, Senator, Judge, Attorney, Investigator and Maintenance Man over 30 Years that Aided and Abetted the Murder of "My People" will all LOSE Everything to the Victims Families.. So Duck and Cover Evil Doers.. the SHIT is about to Hit the Fan...

WR Grace is about to Figure Out what this Internet thing is About. And whether the Law is Irrelevant to YOU or NOT.. the TRUTH is Relevant to Us who have watched Our family die in the Most un-imaginable pain and suffering...

So Folks .. You will Soon hear about Every Doctor, Every Politician, Every Medicaid Cronie... Attorney .. Judge.. pencil pusher, insurance company, and More over 30 Years that Aided and Abetted the MURDER of Montana Citizens ...

I Know many in Libby want this to go away.. and well Real Estate and All.. but Ya Know What.. that last 6 Million Dollars that Baucus Gave Libby.. WELL that Belongs to you Libby Residents - Make Some Noise.. Go Get it..

Hey Lincoln County Montana ~ STOP taking Economic Terrorism - Stop hiding your Death Threat Calls.. .Stop pretending these CRIMES are NOT happening and on your Dime.. STOP pretending that Plea Bargains are ABOVE ANY LAW, and Start Telling the TRUTH about Corruption in Libby Montana..

as It will NEVER end til You Stand Up.. and Tell the Truth.. t
he WHOLE Truth and Nothing But the Truth...

Posted Here by
Investigative Blogger
Lincoln County Montana Native
Relative of Asbestos Victims
Crystal L. Cox

Got a Tip on ANYONE over 30 Years
who Helped WR Grace Get Away with MURDER ?
Email me ...
Crystal@CrystalCox.com

again.. Attacks will be Posted as Well..
And whether you Agree with Me or not ....
the Truth Remains to Be the TRUTH !!!

You Know How the Saying Goes..
YOU Can Lead a Horse to Water..
But ya Can't Make it Drink ...

WR Grace - Bankruptcy - Victims Rights (another Montana Oxymoron) - Attention World: Watch Montana, You Will Be Amazed

As you Read This, Keep in Mind what the State of Montana Defines as a Victim (much more on this later, it seems Montana Law defines victim differently then the Federal Law, wel will be discussing that in great detail at a later date). So there is not a Victim if there is no crime... the crime has to first be determined by the Local and State Judicial System, the Courts, that it "really happened" and once there is a crime then and only then is there a victim.

Article Below

Grace Poisoning Prosecution May Disrupt Bankruptcy
By Bob Van Voris and Steven Church

Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- W.R. Grace & Co., the bankrupt chemical and construction-materials maker, faces a criminal trial for allegedly contaminating a Montana town in a case that may disrupt a reorganization plan that’s taken eight years to craft.

The 155-year-old company and six of its former executives are charged in connection with the asbestos contamination of Libby, a town with a population of about 2,500 where Grace mined and processed asbestos-tainted vermiculite until 1990. About 1,200 people in and around the town died or were sickened, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged.

If convicted by a jury to be selected beginning today in a Missoula federal courtroom, Grace may be fined $280 million or more, the company said in a securities filing. Such a fine may threaten its proposed $2.4 billion trust for people injured by asbestos, a fund at the heart of Grace’s reorganization plan.

“A large enough fine would upset any Chapter 11 plan because it is going to mean dollars out the door,” said bankruptcy attorney Evan Flaschen, with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, who isn’t involved in the case.

Greg Euston, a spokesman for Columbia, Maryland-based W.R. Grace, declined to comment on the bankruptcy case or the criminal prosecution, citing an order by the trial judge limiting what the parties can say publicly.

Grace is charged with conspiracy, violating the U.S. Clean Air Act and obstruction of justice. The six men face between five and 15 years in prison if convicted on the counts they each face. Grace and the former executives have all pleaded not guilty.

Reorganization Plan
Grace said in a Nov. 7 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it spent $108.3 million through September defending the case. The company said it may be forced to pay a $280 million fine if convicted, according to SEC filings.

Grace sought court protection in 2001 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware, in response to more than 100,000 asbestos claims. Since then, the company has fought with asbestos lawyers and creditors over how best to set up the trust to compensate people damaged by the company’s products. Last year, it settled on the outlines of the trust.

Grace told the SEC it may need to borrow as much as $1.5 billion to help fund the $2.4 billion asbestos trust and to pay other creditors owed more than $1.5 billion.

The company’s reorganization plan would need to be rewritten should a large criminal fine be levied, since the proposal does not currently provide any money to pay such a penalty, according to bankruptcy court records.

Shareholders would be disappointed should a large fine delay Grace’s plan to exit bankruptcy later this year, an analyst said.

“They don’t want to operate in bankruptcy any longer than they have to,” said Dan Natoli, a senior analyst with Matrix USA LLC. Natoli recommends selling Grace shares and doesn’t hold any.

1,200 People
Prosecutors claim 1,200 people were injured or killed in the Libby area. The government alleged that many workers and residents of the town are dead or dying from asbestos-related diseases, including asbestosis, a scarring of the lungs, and mesothelioma, a fatal cancer.

A grand jury in 2005 indicted Grace and seven current and former executives for allegedly conspiring to release asbestos- filled vermiculite in Libby and then covering up the dangers.
Grace mined and processed vermiculite, a mineral used in fireproofing, insulation and potting soil, outside Libby from 1963 to 1990, the company says on its Web site.

Prosecutors said workers brought asbestos into their homes on their clothing. Other people were exposed to asbestos when they used vermiculite for gardens or as paving material on their driveways, they claim.

Children Exposed
At a hearing last month, a toxicologist for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency testified that children swung on a rope and dropped into piles of asbestos-filled vermiculite at the Grace mine’s export plant. They ran on the material at the high school track and played on it in ball fields.

The individual defendants are William McCaig, former manager of operations at the Libby mine; Robert Walsh and Robert Bettacchi, former presidents of Grace’s construction products division; Jack Wolter, ex-general manager of the construction products division; and Henry Eschenbach, a former director of health and safety.

Grace is paying their defense costs, the company said in a regulatory filing. Former Grace legal counsel Mario Favorito will be tried separately beginning in September 2009. A seventh man charged in the case, Alan Stringer, a former general manager of operations in Libby, died in 2007.

No Comparable Prosecution
“There’s no environmental prosecution that is comparable to the Grace case in its scale and complexity,” said David Uhlmann, formerly the Justice Department’s top environmental crimes prosecutor and now a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. As chief of the Justice Department’s Environmental Crimes Section, he led the team that investigated and sought the indictment of Grace.

“It is unquestionably the most significant criminal prosecution” the U.S. has filed against an alleged corporate polluter, Uhlmann said.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, who is overseeing the case, has said the trial may take as long as four months.

Missoula is a 3 1/2-hour drive from Libby, which is on the Kootenai River in the northwest corner of the state.

Uhlmann said the length of the alleged conspiracy, the large number of people killed and sickened and the fact that senior Grace officials were charged, including several who worked in the company’s Maryland headquarters, makes the case unique.

Two Year Delay
The case comes to trial after a delay of more than two years while prosecutors appealed a series of unfavorable pretrial rulings to the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco.

In September 2007, that court, which has jurisdiction over Montana federal district courts, reinstated a key conspiracy claim against the defendants, reversing a ruling by Molloy. Grace shares dropped 5.5 percent in response.

Grace rose 14 cents to $6.94 at 9:37 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading
Molloy entered a series of orders designed to avoid local anger over Libby from affecting the trial. For example, prosecutors may not refer to “victims” in their opening statement.

The judge also declined to characterize 34 government witnesses who claim asbestos exposure as victims for purposes of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. The decision means those witnesses won’t be allowed in court during other victims’ testimony.

“If you’re a victim of a rape or a robbery and you survive it, you get to have your day in court and face your offenders,” said Gayla Benefield, an advocate for asbestos victims who has lived in Libby all her life. “A lot of Libby residents won’t get that chance.”

Benefield, a miner’s daughter whose parents both died of asbestosis, has also been diagnosed with the disease.

The case is U.S. v. Grace, 05-CR-00007, U.S. District Court for the District of Montana (Missoula).

To contact the reporters on this story: Bob Van Voris in U.S. District Court in Missoula, Montana, at rvanvoris@bloomberg.net and; Steven Church in Wilmington, Delaware, at schurch3@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: February 19, 2009 09:46 EST


More on W.R. Grace in the News
http://www.kalispellmontananews.com/
2009/02/wr-grace-and-lack-of-victims-rights-in.html

In case you need to Know: the "Victims" as they are NOT allowed to be called in Montana, they are suffering Endless Pain, dying a slow and painful death in their homes or in hospitals and WR Grace has no mercy. The Montana Court systems, in my opinion, is not on the right side of this, but hey who am I, I don't KNOW the Law Right? And all I can see is the Suffering of those living in and having lived and worked in Libby Montana. "Victims Rights" another infamous Oxymoron that Montana is famous for.
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In my opinion, Montana got the Libby Montana Residents into this, and yet they let folks suffer needlessly with no end in site. I heard awhile back that due to Real Estate Boom Montana had Millions upon Millions of surplus Money from Capital Gains Taxes. I mean there has to have been a way to help these folks... Priorities Does not Seem to Be those Suffering in Libby Montana. Seriously, a Death Sentence to Libby is Disgrace on everyone in Montana that has the power to make a difference and NO end in Site.
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Watch all this closely folks, because from my vantage point, I believe that the person with the most money has the most influence over the courts ( i am in no way suggesting bribary) I am simply saying that the court system, as your local montana newspaper, seems to want to "Please" the Big Names and the Big Money Players and hey if your dying and suffering intensly along the way, that's just "Collateral Damage".
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Your simply not as important in the big picture.
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"Alleged Victims" Not allowed in to the Courts... hmmmmm
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Montana Victim Definition Resource (much more coming soon)
http://www.montanarecall.com/2009/01/when-is-victim-victim.html
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www.EurekaMontanaNews.com
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