Rising Hegemon
Now, it appears that the Koch brothers also specialized in international bribery, lying about industrial homicides, and dealing with Iran. You have to love the e-mail from the Koch flack that blames "regulatory complexity" for the company's lawlessness. (If only there weren't so many laws, we wouldn't break so many of them!)
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If only there weren't so many laws, we wouldn't break so many of them!
I think that sums it up perfectly. Al Capone used to run into the same problem. And Enron's Ken Lay.
but will the justice department CHARGE THEM?
Wow, great article... just proves one of my axioms that if you scratch a rightwing businessman, you find an out-and-out criminal... eg Conrad Black, Ken Lay, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship...
The most visible part of Koch Industries is its consumer brands, including... Stainmaster carpet... Dixie cups, Brawny paper towels and Quilted Northern bath tissue.
I think every consumer in Left Blogosphere needs to know this list, don't you?
And if the higherups at the DOJ don't assign some lowerdowns to investigate these Koch sociopaths for trading with Iran, they've got rocks in their heads!
Every member of the Tea Party deserves to know exactly what the Kochs have been up to...
Dontcha think if, say, George Soros had been secretly trading with Iran, the wingnuts would be using it to discredit everything WE stand for?
In March 1998, U.S. District Court Judge Vicki Miles- LaGrange in Oklahoma City ordered Koch to pay for 15 percent of the cleanup costs for dumping at the site between 1946 and 1953. That decision was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in May 2000.
“The record is replete with evidence Koch used unlined ditches, pits and ponds to dispose of hazardous waste at the site,” the appeals court ruled, finding that Koch had tainted groundwater. “The pollution of any Oklahoma waters, including groundwater, has been prohibited by state statute since the early 1900s -- well before Koch’s waste disposal activity at the refinery.”
Wow, these guys REALLY know how to privatize the profits and socialize the costs.
Yes, ONAN, here are some of the pirates who plan on piratizing your social security, public education and health, environmental protections, etc. etc.
Luckily for them, the world is full of Gullible Ostrich People like you, who can be counted upon to stand by and applaud their sociopathic greed.
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