Another Freedom Official Gets Probation

A former Freedom Industries official became the fourth defendant sentenced to three years’ probation on a pollution charge in the 2014 chemical spill. Ex-owner William Tis also was fined $20,000 Monday in federal court in Charleston. Three other ex-Freedom officials were sentenced to probation last week. Two others will be sentenced later this month. The bankrupt company itself was fined $900,000 last week, but a judge said that was symbolic because the fine likely won’t ever be paid.