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Richard Blumenthal: “The $5,000 penalty, under those circumstances of neglect, the severity of the consequences, the seriousness of the…”

On the recordJune 2, 2014
The $5,000 penalty, under those circumstances of neglect, the severity of the consequences, the seriousness of the safety violations, is atrociously inadequate as a measure of what happened here.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal criticizes the inadequacy of penalties for serious safety violations.

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