http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqBDgBK4_Dg
Koch Industries Fortune was Made in Stalin's Communist Russia.
David Koch's twin-brother Bill Koch called Koch Industries "Organized Crime" on CBS TV on 60 Minutes segment about a whistle-blower lawsuit that compelled Koch Industries to pay $25,000,000. This is only a fraction of the quarter-billion (with a "B" billion) the Koch's have had to pay in fines and enforcement actions by the govt. No wonder Koch's Tea Party wants to take the Federal Cops off the beat and end environmental regulation of polluters! http://goo.gl/zZpSI
http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com
Where did the Koch Tea-Party Organized Crime fortune come from? Here you go... the 3 minute history lesson.
In the late 1920s, there was at least one country in the world, where oil was not bought and sold in the usual sense: Communist Russia. The Communists had been trying to take advantage, of their immense oil reserves, since gaining power in 1917, and under Joseph Stalin, the drive to industrial efficiency was pursued, with ruthless speed, but without the benefit of Western technology. Koch Industries founder, Fred Koch, offered to build oil refineries in Communist Russia, that would be more efficient than those in the West. The young engineer's ideas were welcomed, and he was awarded a large contract, to coincide with Stalin's first five-year plan, beginning in 1929. The contract called for construction of 15 refineries, for an initial fee of $5 million, from which Koch and his partner, L. E. Winkler, are said to have netted, a $500,000 profit, which was great wealth, at the peak of the Great Depression years. Koch's work in Communist Russia, necessitated sojourns in that country, offering the Texas farmboy an intimate look at the Soviet system, while providing the cash he would later need in building his U.S. empire. The Winkler-Koch Engineering venture lasted until 1932. Between 1929 and 1932, Stalin purged, starved & worked to death, 7 million Ukranians. Fred Koch returned to the U.S.S.R in 1958. Fred Koch never had any public bad comments to say about Stalinism and Communism until Joseph McCarthy became a threat to people with ties to communist Russian in the early 1960s. Then Fred Koch became a commie-hater, author and speaker while being one of the 12 invited co-founders of the John Birch Society. Like Fred Koch, all of the other co-founders of the John Birch Society were high ranking members of the N.A.M., the National Association of Manufacturers.
$288,000,000 FINES: http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-pollution-poison.html
$288,000,000 FINES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Pollution_and_resource_fines
$288,000,000 FINES: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/10/04/koch-industries-had-inside-man-at-the-epa/
