Ex-CEO who oversaw doomed nuclear project to be sentenced

[TexasTowelie]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The executive who oversaw a $9 billion plan to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina is getting ready to go to prison, more than four years after he announced the mammoth project had failed without ever generating a watt of power.

Former SCANA Corp. CEO Kevin Marsh has agreed with prosecutors that he should spend two years in prison. On Thursday, the former utility executive faces a federal judge who will decide whether to accept that deal and make him the first executive put behind bars for the nuclear energy project debacle.

Marsh decided to go ahead and ask to serve his time, saying his wife of 46 years has incurable breast cancer and he hopes she is still around and he can care for her when he leaves prison.

A second former SCANA executive and an official at Westinghouse Electric Co., the lead contractor to build two new reactors at the V.C. Summer plant, have also pleaded guilty. A second Westinghouse executive has been indicted and is awaiting trial.

Read more: https://wacotrib.com/news/national/ex-ceo-who-oversaw-doomed-nuclear-project-to-be-sentenced/article_34d68dcd-cd95-5467-98c6-c06c42e29f97.html
(Waco Tribune-Herald)

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. When the guilty can dictate the punishment

We have lost the rule of law.

[SCantiGOP]

2. The article is worded very poorly

The judge decided on the 2 year sentence, and his attorneys agreed to accept it and not appeal the decision, which could have delayed the outcome for several years.
Had he not agreed, the judge retained the ability to impose a longer sentence on a “non-repentant” felon.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. I understand what you are saying

But the prosecution should have argued the point of there being a lack of real consequences these days, and without the 'learned lesson' aspect of that punishment, the guilty will not reform. I suppose I am barking out of my butt, but they should have pushed for a stiffer sentence. Face it, there are people who come from a lower socioeconomic background in jail for far less and will be there longer than 2 years. I think this smells, to be honest. But, whatever. Yes, I understand that his wife is dying and he wants to be there for her, but this falls under the heading of 'consequences' (not all consequences are from the legal aspect of our society, after all. Just ask Donna Sue Bissey) and he should have thought of the peripheral damage of his actions before he screwed lots of people out of their ability to survive. Just wait till the real cost of this hits the power consumers in SC, because it will. Oh yes, it will.