All I want is goodness for this incredible state and its incredible people.” “I don’t want a thing for me or my family in any way. Standing at the base of the Capitol steps in Charleston, he assured his fellow West Virginians that his vast business empire of coal mines, vacation resorts and agricultural companies - many of them regulated by the state agencies he would soon control - posed no conflicts with his new job. On a sunny Monday afternoon two and a half years ago, Jim Justice, the wealthiest man in West Virginia, took the oath of office as the state’s 36th governor. Here’s how the governor, dubbed “Big Jim,” became West Virginia’s little Trump.
When lobbyists and state agencies book there, he profits. Jim Justice is West Virginia’s richest man and owns its most storied resort.
