Koch Industries Expose: Inside The Secret Dealings Of Koch Industries

Bloomberg Markets:

Charles and David Koch, Billionaire Brothers and major tea Party Backers, run a corporate empire that has made illicit payments to win contracts, sold chemical equipment to Iran in defiance of a U.S. trade ban, stolen oil on federal land and lied to regulators about toxic emissions.

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Comments

[mario59]

01:01 PM on 10/05/2011

“We are proud to be a major American employer and manufacturing company with about 50,000 U.S. employees,” she wrote. “Given the regulatory complexity of our business....."

Expect that in any future comments when it comes to environmental and fiscal constraints placed on corporations. Their corporate political strategy is now to pit LIVES AGAINST LIVELIHOODS. If you want to have a clean environment, fine, we'll close the plant altogether and you can enjoy your clean air and water while you STARVE." This is the reason we cannot let corporations have so much leverage in the first place. Globalization gave them that big lever and stick they now intend to hit anyone who should dare to expect a healthy life AND living.

[WOODSTOCKER60]

09:35 AM on 10/06/2011

IF YOU DO THE RESEARCH.....YOU WILL SEE.THIS FAMILYS HISTORY....IS MORE LIKE THE "CLEAVERS".....NOT THE "CLEAVERS WE FROM THE 60'S T.V. SHOW WE KNOW".........

http://unknownjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/%e2%96%bc-report-the-kochs-their-nazi-past-american-oil-the-foundation-of-republican-ideology/

.ANOTHER REASON WHY STEVE JOBS...MEANS SO MUCH TO THE WORLDS PEOPLE........OUR ABILITY TO FIND THE TRUTH.......

[SweetClarissa]

04:17 AM on 10/05/2011

The Koch Bros are two of the most unethical pieces of walking garbage that ever slithered over the surface of planet earth. Their acts of environmental criminal negligence have poisoned more people that one could imagine. Slow torture would be too good for these pieces of pure evil filth.

[SweetClarissa]

04:07 AM on 10/05/2011

Why are you censoring the way you are on this article. Geeze, do the Koch bros have so much power they can even get HP to censor comments?

[peacekitten]

06:24 PM on 10/04/2011

the kochs are a can cer on america, and they must be removed, like any other fa tal tum or. tax them into oblivion. taking their money is the only thing they will understand.

[DaveInWheaton]

04:16 PM on 10/05/2011

If I wilfully poisoned my neightbors, I would go to jail. I think they might understand going to jail, but I doubt it would change their behavior.

[peacekitten]

12:52 AM on 10/06/2011

they have willfully poisoned their neighbors with impugnity, in fact, rewarded for it.

nothing will change their behavior, but a lifetime behind bars in the worst pr son in america would at least protect the rest of us from them.

like gitmo.  that's the only reason it should be kept open, to house the corporate criminals who deserve housing there, as well as its attendant "perks."

[peacekitten]

06:21 PM on 10/04/2011

some tro/\comunitymodstalker with a badge has removed all my posts.

stop it.

[looneydoone]

02:06 PM on 10/05/2011

They're lurking on every thread ;-(

[peacekitten]

06:17 PM on 10/04/2011

these people, the koch brothers, and their father have been a can cer on the american landscape for far too long.

of course, they will not be prosecuted for the crimes they have committed because they are rich, which is yet another reason why they have to removed from influence by any means necessary.

their greatest punishment would be to have every bit of the money and possessions they have removed from them, and they should be forced to live on the edge, as  they have helped do to millions of others.  they should be forced to work the rest of their miserable lives in a job of backbreaking labor, like public sanitation, no health care, no vacation, no pension, no benefits, and at minimum wage.

[George Global]

01:26 PM on 10/04/2011

From: http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/02/dont-buy-these-products-from-koch-industries/

BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS

Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity fair napkins
Zee napkins
Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes
All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products
(INVISTA Products)
Lycra
Stainmaster Carpet

[TirednScared]

11:41 AM on 10/04/2011

Why is this not bigger news? This was a huge headline yesterday on HuffingtonPost, but I never saw it mentioned in the Washington Post or elsewhere - yesterday or today. Is it being hushed up because of the wealth of the Koch's? Why aren't more people outraged?

[eLucida]

12:51 PM on 10/05/2011

Welcome to the 99%.

[Natalie Willoughby]

01:43 PM on 10/05/2011

F&F.

Isn't it amazing how the majority isn't actually the majority?

[proudtohaveserved]

10:55 AM on 10/04/2011

CAPITALISM, PURE AND SIMPLE

[peacekitten]

06:19 PM on 10/04/2011

capitalism is neither.

[peacekitten]

06:24 PM on 10/04/2011

capitalism is neither pure nor simple.

[legalgirl]

10:29 AM on 10/04/2011

Let the prosecutions begin !!!

[proudtohaveserved]

10:56 AM on 10/04/2011

LEGAL dream on, MONEY TALKS, BS WALKS

[maxhnb]

01:53 AM on 10/04/2011

Behind every fortune is a thief.

[DreamWeaver2nd]

01:23 AM on 10/04/2011

This is one of the most important stories in America today. Do not miss it!
David and Charles Koch. Their income increased by 400 percent over the last ten years.
When you have multiple billions to begin with, that's a lot.
How much has your financial worth increased over the same time period?
This is the story of America today.

[sebackpacker]

11:26 AM on 10/04/2011

Jelly, I presume?????

[taxi648]

01:14 AM on 10/04/2011

With all the fines, back wages, and lawsuit monies paid out all they had to do was spend the money, probably less, and become compliant. Instead they buy politicians to try and do away with any regulations. As for skirting the law on selling to Iran, profit obviously comes before country. Thanks to the whistle blowers for their integrity.

[Grace Hulbert]

10:40 PM on 10/03/2011

I am so glad that Michelle Bachmann is supporting "standing against the enemy like a nuclear Iran." I fully expect that she will issue a furious denunciation of the Koch brothers, the chief architects and financiers of the Tea Beggar movement, because it was revealed that they have been selling oil excavation equipment to Iran. This is against the law and they used German and Italian subsidiaries to side-step US law.

***heavily dripping with sarcasm***

[MontanaBanana]

09:24 PM on 10/03/2011

When will average Republicans understand that the wealthy could care less about them and their needs? My guess is................never, as they have been brain-washed that they too, will be wealthy some day. They have never done the math to discover they would have to work for 20 years making $50,000/year with NO bills to pay and No taxes inorder to have a measly $1million! Yet, they will continue to be blind and work for their masssters.

[maxhnb]

01:54 AM on 10/04/2011

We are not talking about political thinkers here....we are dealing with visceral uninformed hysterics. nuff said

[urbrainwashed2]

04:07 AM on 10/04/2011

They will never learn because they are brainwashed. The likes of the Kochs brainwash them people by the millions. They use their religion, patriotic, or any other fraud they can manipulate their minds with.
Give a billionaire a tax break and they will create a job or re-invest in america? Don't kid yourself, they will buy another politician or invest in an enemy nation like Iran, China, or India.
Wake up foolz.