I wasn't aware of this little tidbit about the Cock... err... I mean Koch brothers

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

from back in the day:


http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/28/business/brother-versus-brother-koch-family-s-long-legal-feud-is-headed-for-a-jury.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Brother Versus Brother; Koch Family's Long Legal Feud Is Headed for a Jury
By LESLIE WAYNE
Published: April 28, 1998

In the annals of family feuds, the slugfest of the Koch family of Kansas is one of the biggest, meanest and longest-running.

In terms of the dollars at stake and the years consumed, the Koch (pronounced coke) brothers' battle outdistances such celebrated legal contests as the fight over the tobacco heiress Doris Duke's estate, the Washington businessman Herbert H. Haft's contest with his son and former wife and the bitter clash between the third wife of the late Johnson & Johnson Company founder, J. Seward Johnson, and the children from his first marriage.

Now, after wending its way through the legal system for 12 years, the Koch case -- which has its roots in a board room brawl in the early 1980's over dividends paid by the family business -- is finally culminating in a Federal court here. A jury that includes a retired janitor, a physical therapist, a nurse and two schoolteachers will soon decide whether two brothers cheated the other two out of $2.3 billion or whether the brothers seeking the money are being just plain greedy.

In a courtroom filled with some of the best legal talent money can buy, the four brothers, who have a combined net worth of $5.6 billion, are split into two warring camps. On one side are Charles, 62, and David, 57, who almost entirely own Koch Industries, the nation's second-largest privately held company after Cargill, the grain combine.

[HopeHoops]

1. Put a rubber on it.

[Wait Wut]

2. Sounds like a classy family.

I'd love to hang with them for the holidays.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. My mom always said that money doesn't buy class: "Now pass me the cranberry you fucking commie!!!""

[Wait Wut]

5. !

:spray:

[benld74]

4. I hope it drags on for YEARS and the lawyers DRAIN the brothers bank accounts!!

[BlueToTheBone]

6. Me too! It's such a pleasure to watch them

eat each other alive.

[tabatha]

7. "the four brothers, who have a combined net worth of $5.6 billion"

I thought Charles and David made $11 billion last year.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. The article is from 1998. I'm not sure what ended up happening in the end. nt

[gkhouston]

9. The OP says "from 1998".

Looks like they've gotten a hell of a lot richer since then.

[Rex]

10. How are they any different then the Bush Brood?

Neil, Jeb, George...low life scum can be wealthy, yet it is still low life scum.