GOP Mega-Donor Koch Brothers' Company Tied To Global Criminal Misdeeds In Bombshell Article

[Pharaoh]

A just-published bombshell article in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine implicates Koch Industries, the company controlled by Republican mega-donors Charles and David Koch, in dozens of criminal acts around the globe over the past three decades.

According the report, company officials have been caught paying bribes to win contracts, trading with Iran in violation of the U.S. embargo, price-fixing, neglecting safety and ignoring environmental regulations.

The billionaire brothers are major donors to FreedomWorks, the Cato Institute, and dozens of other conservative think-tanks and nonprofits. They have also been tied to several independent expenditure groups supporting Republican candidates across the country — and last year The New Yorker exposed the family's efforts to oppose President Barack Obama.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-mega-donor-koch-brothers-tied-to-global-criminal-misdeeds-in-bombshell-article-2011-10#ixzz1ZfM0r5wz

[no_hypocrisy]

1. AG Holder, do your job and pledge your duty to this country.

Get the indictments out tomorrow morning.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Eric says look forward, not back

He's lacking in the resolve to actually prosecute criminals. He wants to take medicine form Cancer patients and call that a day.

[WhiteTara]

2. I have a feeling that if they just paid their taxes

it would cost them a lot less.

[polly7]

3. These azzholes contribute to our climate-change denying Fraser

Institute. As well, they're big players in the Tarsands project.

The Kochs: Oil Sands Billionaires Bankrolling US Right
They process about one in four barrels of US-bound Alberta bitumen, and pump millions of dollars into highly conservative, anti-green causes. Latest in a series.
By Geoff Dembicki, 22 Mar 2011, TheTyee.ca

"What do Tea Party rallies, Republican victories, climate change deniers, Wisconsin's anti-union push and attacks on a cap and trade market for carbon emissions have in common?

They're all fueled in part by profits derived from Alberta's oil sands."

http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/03/22/KochBrothers/

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Global/usa/report/2010/3/koch-industries-secretly-fund.pdf

[SpiralHawk]

5. Republicon Family War-profiteering Cesspool Values

And yet the SuckerPuppet Baggers & Freepers continue to allow these billionaires to merrily jerk their strings and get them to dumbly dance to their tune -- and vote against their own interests.

Wake up Freepers. Wake up Baggers. Wake up RepubliCon Proles. You are being continuously & shamelessly SUCKERED & USED by the billionaire FatCats (R) who are your Overlords.

Foresake your republicon puppetmasters, and join with Americans for America.

The hour it is getting late. Way late.

[wildbilln864]

6. k & r! eom...

[Kurovski]

7. K&R. (nt)

[Kingofalldems]

8. Looks like a Special Prosecutor should start warming up in the bullpen

[MADem]

9. Go after Trading With Iran first--that's the one everyone and anyone can get.

Even the wingnuts.

[PETRUS]

10. K&R nt

[orwell]

11. It's not criminal...

...if you're rich enough.

Hasn't the last 10,000 years of human history taught us anything?

[FiveGoodMen]

13. Which is why we should never let anyone get that rich.

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

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