Will the Rocky Flats Grand Jury Files Finally Be Opened?
https://www.westword.com/news/rocky-flats-grand-jury-documents-should-be-released-for-audit-of-nuclear-weapons-plant-cleanup-11106187
| JANUARY 11, 2019 This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the FBI raid on the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, the first (and so far only) raid of one federal agency by another. At dawn on June 6, 1989, dozens of FBI and EPA agents entered the plant sixteen miles northwest (and upwind) of Denver, seeking evidence of alleged environmental crimes at the government facility that had been producing plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs since the ’50s…and been the site of leaks, fires and other accidents for decades.
The evidence they found was ultimately considered by Colorado’s first-ever special grand jury, empaneled in August 1989. After two years of deliberations, the jurors wanted to indict eight individuals — some from the Department of Energy, some from Rockwell International, which ran the plant for the DOE — for environmental crimes. Instead, in March 1992 the Department of Justice sealed a deal with Rockwell, fining the company $18.5 million, less than it had made in one year of bonuses. No individuals were named.
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