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

Business Insider ^ | 10/03/2011 | Zeke Miller

[SeekAndFind]

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.

[FiddlePig]

Donating any amount to the GOP IS A SERIOUS CRIME! Koch Brothers should be sent to re-education camps or better yet be-headed on a gullitine. So says no less an authority than Rosanne Barr! See Rosanne get in touch with her inner Nazi/Commie tyrant:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/01/roseanne_barr_behead_bankers_rich_who_wont_give_up_wealth.html

[milwguy]

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/09/bloomberg-legitimate-news-story-or-liberal-smear.php

POWERLINE responded to most of the charges against KOCH a week ago BEFORE Bloomberg even published their hit piece.

Bribes of foreign officials and doing busines with Iran?? Hmmm, sounds a little like GE to me. Oh yeah, GE supports Obama and is into ‘clean energy’ so they are the good guys. Koch deals in oil and ‘dirty energy’ so they are the enemy.

The sad thing is the liberal enviro wackos are going crazy and watch for Obama and his sycophants at Bloomberg to continue with it pieces on corporate opponents of the left.

long ago, a subsidiary of a European Koch subsidiary sold equipment in Iran is anything but a bombshell. Such sales were legal at the time and are still legal today, but some years ago, Koch Industries adopted a policy that is stricter than required by American law, and now bans any Koch-related company from doing business with Iran.

Companies that have done legal business with Iran include, among many others, Alcatel-Lucent, BASF, Caterpillar, ConocoPhillips, Daimler, Dresser-Rand, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Halliburton, Hewlett-Packard, Honda, Honeywell, Ingersoll Rand, KPMG, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nestle, Nissan, Nokia, Schlumberger, Siemens, Sony, Tyson Foods and Unilever. Some of those companies or their subsidiaries continue to do business with Iran. So why, exactly, is the fact that years ago a Koch affiliate sold goods in Iran suddenly a hot news item?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I saw both of them on the grassy knoll. Which is amazing, since I was 3 1/2 years old and in Santa Ana, California at the time.

[McGavin999]

I heard they shot a puppy.

No, they drowned them in a bag with a bunch of sweet little kitties.

[Dr. Thorne]

The Business Insider is a leftist outfit that doesn’t deserve to have their laughable agitprop posted on FR.

[MrB]

Communists infiltrate all places of influence that they can.

It is really no wonder that Soros is “protected”, as he is the greatest advancer of communism since the Red Army.

[SeekAndFind]

I am not a supporter of Business Insider, but the contents of article was taken from BLOOMBERG MARKETS. Bloomberg Markets cannot be posted in FR.

Also, other news sources have republished this story.

See here :

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/64987.html

and here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/02/bloomberg_articlesLSDCFQ1A74E9.DTL

and here:

http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/moneywatch-editors/report-koch-brothers-made-sales-to-iran/786/

and here:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/10/the_koch_brothers_made_part_of.html

[concerned about politics]

So why, exactly, is the fact that years ago a Koch affiliate sold goods in Iran suddenly a hot news item?

Elections are coming up. They really don't have that much to work with, so they're throwing poop and they're hoping it sticks to the wall.

[MamaTexan]

I have trouble mustering outrage over this while the US government exceeds its constitutional authority more each day.

Good call.

This seems like more of a diversionary tactic than anything else.

A 'Bombshell article' doesn't mean squat. If anything truly criminal had happened, the arrests would have already been made.

[sasquatch]

Its the seriesness of the charge. /s

[Eccl 10:2]

Charges also include parking too close to a fire hydrant, paying their Visa bill 2 days late in Oct 1983, driving in the fast lane at the speed limit, being three days late on fire extinguisher inspections in Jan 1974, and failure to cover their mouth when they sneezed:

[TigersEye]

Didn’t General Electric continue to trade with Iran after the embargo? Isn’t GE a big lefty donor and union thug operation?

[svcw]

Oh, you mean they do business like democrats, how disappointing. I also read once they poured hot fudge on a puppy.

[TigersEye]

No. Does it concern you?

[VeniVidiVici]

"Those activities constitute violations of criminal law," Koch Industries wrote in a Dec. 8, 2008, letter giving details of its findings. The letter was made public in a civil court ruling in France in September 2010; the document has never before been reported by the media.

Sure is news now, isn't it? Hmmm. I wonder why?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I hear if Soros were to turn up on any street corner in Malaysia without his bodyguards the passersby would beat him to death in under a minute.

[TigersEye]

He’s Persona Non Grata in Croatia and other Balkan countries, yeah, he would get shot if found here.

Where is the Mission Impossible team when you need them? Gotta re-route his plane while making him think he's landing in a friendly country.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: No. Does it concern you?

No, not at all. What DOES concern me though is the fact that the US government makes it its business to GO AFTER money made by its citizens and residents OVERSEAS.

The US and Eritrea are the only two nations that tax based upon citizenship, not locale. The US makes a claim to taxes on any money you earn anywhere in the world, if you’re a citizen or permanent resident. Highly immoral - but a claim nevertheless.

If you are a German who makes money in the USA, YOU ARE TAXED IN THE USA ONLY and not in Germany.

However, if you are an American who makes money in Germany, YOU ARE TAXED IN GERMANY *AND* in the USA.

Someone in Congress should be doing something about this highly immoral law of ours. We are making criminals of innocent people and wasting time and resources going after them (productive citizens who don’t make themselves a burden on the government ).

[PhilosopherStone1000]

“Would you be concerned if you found out that the Koch Brothers kept a portion of their wealth in secret bank accounts overseas? (or for that matter, thousands of rich people?)”

Yes, I’d be concerned if I found out that the Koch Brothers kept thousands of rich people in secret bank accounts overseas. But if they were Hollywood rich, I wouldn’t much care...

[End Times Sentinel]

There you have the whole story.

I was waiting to see if anyone caught the money line.

This report is garbage.