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Date: 13 Jul 1996
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Abstract

Call it fertilizing the grass roots. On the morning of April 16. a few leaders of Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) pitched an elite bunch of corporate lobbyists about financing a new grass-roots lobbying project~a muitiyear, multimillion-dollar effort to overhaul the nation's environmental regulations.

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Named Organization

AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organiza)

Labor Union

American Petroleum Institute

Chamber of Commerce

Citizens for a Sound Economy (Powerful industry-funded think tank that promotes deregulati)

Edison Electric Institute

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

George Mason University

Georgetown University

Heritage Foundation

House of Representatives

Justice Department

National Association of Manufacturers

Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)

Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.

Public Citizen ("PC") (Nonprofit consumer advocate organization founded by Ralph Na)

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocate-action organization founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader.

Republican Party

Senate

University of Vermont

Vanderbilt University

Washington Post (Newspaper)

White House

Named Person

Bahler, Brent

Bash, George

Beckner, Paul N.

Boron, David L.

Brewster, Bill

Burke, John F. Jr. Ph.D. (Economist, Cleveland St. U, Anti-Tobacco Expert)

Burke, John P.

Burke, Sheila P.

Care, Clinton

Cicconi, James W.

Claybrook, Joan B.

Coverdell, Paul

Davis, Michele

Delay, Tom D.

Dole, Robert (U.S. Vice President, Senator (R-KS))

Defense

Ellsworth, Robert F.

Fink, Richard H.

Forbes, Steve

Fuller, Craig L. (Sr. V.P. Corporate Affairs for PM, 1994)

He was Philip Morris' top spokesman in 1994. (WSJ 6-3-94) He was a Philip Morris Vice President. (PMI's Introduction to Privilege Log and Glossary of Names, Estate of Burl Butler v. PMI, et al, April 19, 1996)

Gray, C. Boyden

Hargrove, Erwin C.

Johnson, Lyndon

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (U. S. President, 1961-1963)

Koch, David

Koch, David H.

Lewis, Charles

Mitchell, Nancy L.

Motley, John J.

Parks, Carl

Reed, Scott

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Solomon, Burt

Stone, Peter H.

Sweeney, John J.

Truluck, Phillip N.

Wayne, Stephen J.

Whitman, Christine Todd

Woodward, Bob

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Outline of Remarks Given by: Robert Meyne, Director of Public Policy, Rj Reynolds Tobacco Company Las Vegas International Restaurant, Hotel and Gaming Show - Awards Luncheon 940624

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Cain's Ties to Big Tobacco AND David Koch

Cain's new campaign ad highlights not only his connections to
the tobacco industry but also connections to David Koch through "Chief of
Staff" Mark Block. 

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9.  ON BEHALF OF NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION AND SAVE AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE (SAFE) FUND, I WANT T...
Title	ON BEHALF OF NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION AND SAVE AMERICAN FREE ENTERPRISE (SAFE) FUND, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR RJ REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY'S GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE SAFE FUND.

10.  PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEKLY REPORT.
Title	PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEKLY REPORT.
Author	MEYNE RW; RJR
Date	19940228 (February 28, 1994)
Type	EMAIL; LETTER
Bates	528017399
Collection	RJ Reynolds
Other Num.	RJR 508017402; 70018 0688-0689
	Tobacco Com~W INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: David Fishel FROM: Rob Meyne DATE: February 28, 1997 SUBJECT: Public Affairs Weekly Report • Public Affairs met with Herman Cain, who was recently named president and chief executive officer of the National Restaurant Association, to discuss how we can continue to work together on issues of mutual concern. Cain gave every indication that the NRA and RJR have the same views with regard to excessive government regulation and the importance of letting...

15.  ETS COALITION WORK - HOSPITALITY INDUSTR.
Title	ETS COALITION WORK - HOSPITALITY INDUSTR.
Author	GRISCOM TC; MSM USA; GIETZ A
Date	19961218 (December 18, 1996)
Type	EMAIL; LETTER
Bates	528017375
Collection	RJ Reynolds

update. There should be some opportunities here to work together with PM in certain markets and to share our common interests in developing this issue of accommodation. Under a separate fax, I sent both of you some information on IRAQ in the U.S. Plans are being developed and I want to make sure they are consistent with European plans. You should send your comments to Seth. Also, just a note: Herman Cain, the new NRA president, is on the board of Nabisco so we have an added incentive in working with...

20.  PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEKLY REPORT.
Title	PUBLIC AFFAIRS WEEKLY REPORT.
Author	RJR; MEYNE R
Date	19970502 (May 2, 1997)
Type	EMAIL; LETTER
Bates	527892386/2387
Collection	RJ Reynolds

INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: David Fishel FROM: Rob Meyne DATE: May 2, 1997 SUBJECT: Public Affairs Weekly Report Public Affairs and Government Relations had discussions this week with Herman Cain, President and CEO, and Biff Naylor, Chairman of the Board of the National Restaurant Association. They committed to continue working with us as Naylor's tenure as Chairman ends this May. In addition to cooperating on issues related to the accommodation of smokers domestically, they...

29.  N. R. A. BOARD MEETING.
Title	N. R. A. BOARD MEETING.
Author	MEYNE R
Date	19990122 (January 22, 1999)
Type	LETTER; EMAIL
Bates	522904812/4813
Collection	RJ Reynolds

and COO Herman Cain is leaving the NRA In November. When he was originally hired (from his position as CEO of Godfather's pizza) Cain was given a three-year contract, which is up In November. So this Is not unexpected. What IS a little interesting, although not totally unexpected, Is that Herman has informed key NRA leaders (including many of our best friends in the organization) that he is, in fact, going to run for President. In 2000. Nice to have goals, huh? One can speculate on his real goals: perhaps to

Documenting $88,829,504 Dirty Koch Pollution and Resource Fines

Documenting $88,829,504 Dirty Koch Pollution and Resource Fines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Pollution_and_resource_fines

In March 1999, Koch Petroleum Group, a Koch Industries subsidiary, pled guilty to charges that it had negligently dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of aviation fuel into wetlands near the Mississippi River from its refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, and that it had also illegally dumped a million gallons of high-ammonia wastewater onto the ground and into the Mississippi River. Koch Petroleum paid the Dakota County Park System a $6 million fine and $2 million in remediation costs, and was ordered to serve three years of probation.[32]

[32] "Koch Petroleum Group Sentenced for Minnesota Pollution" (Press release). Environmental Protection Agency. 9 March 2000. Retrieved 2010-06-14. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/eae2020401d0bf098525689d00713ea5!OpenDocument

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In 1999, a federal jury found that Koch Industries had stolen oil from government and American Indian lands, had lied about its purchases more than 24,000 times, and was fined $553,504.[33]

[33]  CBS (27 November 2000). "Blood and Oil". 60 Minutes. http://web.archive.org/web/20110201210711/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/27/60II/main252545.shtml

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In January 2000, a Koch Industries subsidiary, Koch Pipeline, agreed to a $35 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the State of Texas. This settlement, including a $30 million civil fine, was incurred for the firm's three hundred oil spills in Texas and five other states going back to 1990.[34][35][36] The spills resulted in more than 3 million US gallons (11,000 m3) of crude oil leaking into ponds, lakes, streams and coastal waters.[37]

[34] "Koch Pipeline Company L.P. - Newsroom". Kochpipeline.com. 2000-01-13. Retrieved 2011-07-23
[35] By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz and Jeff Nesmith (2001-07-23). "Austin news, sports, weather, Longhorns, business". Statesman.com. Retrieved 2011-07-23. www.statesman.com/specialreports/content/specialreports/pipelines/23pipegathering.html
[36] "Koch Agrees to $35 Million Settlement in Two Environmental Cases". Safety Online. 17 January 2000. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/016bcfb1deb9fecd85256aca005d74df/981d17e5ab07246f8525686500621079
[37] "Koch Industries to Pay Record Fine for Oil Spills in Six States" (Press release). Environmental Protection Agency. 13 January 2000. Retrieved 2010-06-14. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/016bcfb1deb9fecd85256aca005d74df/981d17e5ab07246f8525686500621079

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In 2001, the company reached two settlements with the government. In April, the company reached a $20 million settlement in exchange for admitting to covering up environmental violations at its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.[38][39] That May, Koch Industries paid $25 million to the federal government to settle a federal lawsuit that found the company had improperly taken more oil than it had paid for from federal and Indian land.[33][40]

[38] "Koch Pleads Guilty to Covering up Environmental Violations at Texas Oil Refinery". justice.gov. U.S. Department of Justice. 9 April 2001. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/016bcfb1deb9fecd85256aca005d74df/981d17e5ab07246f8525686500621079
[39] Don Richards (22 January 2001). "DOJ Reduces Indictments Against Koch Industries". ICIS. http://www.icis.com/Articles/2001/01/22/130888/doj-reduces-indictments-against-koch-industries.html
[33]  CBS (27 November 2000). "Blood and Oil". 60 Minutes. http://web.archive.org/web/20110201210711/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/11/27/60II/main252545.shtml
^ Russell Ray (20 June 2001). "Tribe Likely to Get Piece of Settlement in Osage County, Okla., Oil Squabble". Tulsa World.
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In June 2003, the US Commerce Department fined Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hill Resources a $200,000 civil penalty. The fine settled charges that the company exported crude petroleum from the US to Canada without proper US government authorization. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said from July 1997 to March 1999, Koch Petroleum (later called Flint Hill Resources) committed 40 violations of Export Administration Regulations.[41] 

[41] US Dept of Commerce, Commerce Dept Fines Kansas Firm, June 3, 2003 press release, http://www.bis.doc.gov/news/2003/kansasfirmfined.htm

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In 2006, Koch Industries’ subsidiary Flint Hill Resources was fined nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10 separate violations of the Clean Air Act at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another $60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations.[42] 

[42] EPA Press Release, EPA Fines Flint Hill Resources Alaska, Dec 13 2006, accessed Aug 25 2010, http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/b0789fb70f8ff03285257029006e3880/6b191200b3ce87e2852572430062f987!OpenDocument

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In 2007, Koch Nitrogen's plant in Enid, Oklahoma, was listed as the third highest company releasing toxic chemicals in Oklahoma, according to the EPA, ranking behind Perma-Fix Environmental Services in Tulsa and Weyerhaeuser Co. in Valliant.[43] The facility produces about 10% of the US national production of anhydrous ammonia, as well as urea and UAN.[44]

[43] "EPA Reports Toxic Releases to Air, Water and Land in Oklahoma in 2007". Environmental Protection Agency. 2009-03-19.. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/6427a6b7538955c585257359003f0230/0c43e41531a2f7848525757e00664797!OpenDocument
[44] Voorhis, Dan (2010-12-16). "Fertilizer Helps Koch Grow". Wichita Eagle. http://www.kansas.com/2010/12/16/1635564/fertilizer-helps-koch-grow.html

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In 2010, Koch Industries was ranked 10th on the list of top US corporate air polluters, the “Toxic 100 Air Polluters,” by the Political Economic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[45]

[45] cite press release |title= Toxic 100 Air Polluters |date= March 31, 2010 |url= http://www.peri.umass.edu/toxic_press/ |accessdate= }}

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http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/10/04/koch-industries-had-inside-man-at-the-epa/

Koch-Employee Herman-Cain of Koch-Americans-for-Koch-Prosperity

Koch-Employee Herman Cain of Koch-Americans-for-Koch-Prosperity: Cain on his knees worshiping the Big Koch.

Koch Industries astroturf Front Group for the Organized Crime Koch Industries is the organized-crime offshoot Koch-Americans-for-Koch-Prosperity, usually abbreviated to conceal the Koch crime bosses involvement to just Americans for Prosperity.

David Koch - Evidence Of Direct Tea Party Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjQxPJOAfg&feature=player_embedded

Does Herman Cain KNOW that David Koch hired KKK-Tom-Posey as treasurer of the predecessor of Americans for Prosperity (Citizens for a Sound Economy, CSE, morphed into FREEDOMWORKS and AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY in 2004, two years before Koch hired the career-crashed pizzaman)? 

Cain floundered in 2004 after Cain helped run Aquilla into the ground, while KKK-Terrorist Tom Posey held the moneybags at CSE, Cain served as a director for ill-fated local energy company Aquila, an association that eventually landed him in court as a defendant in a major class-action lawsuit.

Americans for Prosperity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Prosperity

AFP was founded in 2004 when Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) split into FreedomWorks (formerly Citizens for a Sound Economy), for 501(c)(4) advocacy ...

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CSE Board of Directors, 2003 http://old.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=395 

• DAVID H. KOCH, CHAIRMAN <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  
• THOMAS POSEY, TREASURER <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
• CHARLES G. KOCH, EMERITUS BOARD MEMBER

The only existing photo on the internet of Organized Crime Boss David Koch on the right and state-sponsored-terrorist Tom Posey on the Ultra-Right.

$288,000,000.00 is ENOUGH! STOP Koch Organized Crime.  http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/28800000000-is-enough-stop-koch.html

Herman Cain on his knees worshiping the Big Koch http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/herman-cain-on-his-knees-worshiping-big.html

Herman Cain on his knees worshiping the Big Koch (part 2) http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/herman-cain-on-his-knees-worshiping-big_17.html

Herman Cain on his knees worshiping the Big Koch (part 3) http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/herman-cain-on-his-knees-worshiping-big_1724.html

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-employee-herman-cain-of-koch.html

$288,000,000.00 is ENOUGH! STOP Koch Organized Crime.

$288,000,000.00 is ENOUGH! STOP Koch Organized Crime.

Koch's have been fined $288,000,000.00 so far. At what point do you say ENOUGH! This evil corporation has murdered Americans and still is, while corrupting our govt. I don't need to fix everything -- I can fix ONE THING NOW!

$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/

Koch's and Murdoch were engaged in 400,000 corporate serial murders per year, just in America, not counting the overseas divisions. The courts found GUILTY the organized crime tobacco mafia, of which the Koch-Murdoch-Axis were full-partners. The federal courts brought in a GUILTY verdict, of Racketeer-Influenced-Corrupt-Organization and Koch-Murdochs were running the organization apparatus. Murdoch was Director on Board of Philip Morris and Director on Board of Cato Institute. Every Koch lie-factory was part of the organized crime conspiracy.

Kochs were found, and admitted, to bribing French officials. What US officials has this totally RICO organized crime bribed? How about they funded lavish speaker fees to Supreme Court Thomas & Scalia while funding the CITIZENS UNITED in front of them. That's bribery by every definition known to man.

Koch-Murdoch Axis is engaged in organized crime voter suppression violation in multiple states, funding ALEC to drive off ethnic voters from the 2012 election in multiple red states. This is an active on-going crime which will not stop, and which will prevent ever fixing the system.


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(Part 3) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

(Part 3) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/10/13/343318/americans-for-prosperity-campaign-activities/


Anti-Climate Americans For Prosperity Claims To Not Be Politically Active After Launching Attack Ads 

The conservative Americans for Prosperity reported to the IRS that the organization does not engage in political activities even though it reported to the Federal Election Commission that it spent $1.3 million on political radio spots and television ads. During the 2010 midterm elections, the organization unleashed these anti-clean energy ads. According to ClimateWire, AFP’s answer matters because it removes the political expenditure information, which the IRS uses to determine if the group can maintain its tax-exempt status and continue to hide its donors’ identities. An AFP spokeswoman said the ads are not political activity under the FEC’s definition because they don’t tell voters to support or oppose certain candidates. But Lloyd Mayer, associate dean of the Notre Dame Law School, said, “Under the federal tax law … they are clearly political campaign activity.”


http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/09/koch-brothers-game-the-system-at-keystone-xl-public-meetings/

Koch Brothers Interfere At Keystone XL Public Meeting

http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/2011/09/koch-brothers-game-the-system-at-keystone-xl-public-meetings/

Yesterday, the State Department kicked off the final round of public meetings on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Kansas, the home state of the billionaire industrialist brothers, Charles and David Koch. The Koch brothers are notorious for funding anti-environment, anti-progressive, and anti-Democratic astroturf campaigns. According to a report by Greenpeace, they even outdid ExxonMobile in funding climate denial groups since 2005. The Koch brothers are also President Obama’s bitterest political rivals.
Unsurprisingly, the Koch brothers’ front group Americans for Prosperity was gaming the system at the Keystone XL public meeting in Topeka, Kansas, attempting to prevent community members opposed to the pipeline from expressing their views to the State Department. ...

Americans for Prosperity: Distorting climate change science and ...

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/03/18/americans-for-prosperity-distorting-climate-change-science-and-economics-in-well-funded-campaign/

Mar 18, 2010 – Americans for Prosperity (AFP), part of a network of libertarian .... Wilson Center panel: “Is the Keystone XL pipeline in the national interest?” ...

Americans for Prosperity: Astroturf.Org | Pete Altman's Blog ...

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/paltman/americans_for_prosperity_astro_1.html

Aug 6, 2009 – Top Stories: Anti-Environmental Riders · Keystone XL Pipeline ... Home › Contributors › Pete Altman › Americans for Prosperity: Astroturf.Org ...

Koch Industries, Keystone XL Pipeline…a BP on the Prairie? | HPUB ...

http://huffingtonpostunionofbloggers.org/2011/08/23/koch-industries-keystone-xl-pipeline-a-bp-on-the-prairie/

Aug 23, 2011 – TransCanada, the Keystone XL Pipeline and Koch Industries .... bankrolling the think tanks like FreedomWorks and Americans For Prosperity, ...

- (Part 1) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-1-koch-company-declared.html

- (Part 2) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-2-koch-company-declared.html

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-3-koch-company-declared.html

(Part 2) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

(Part 2) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

Document filed with Canada's Energy Board appears to cast doubt on claims by Koch Industries that it has no interest in the controversial pipeline

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/05/koch-keystone-xl-pipeline 

In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline has "nothing to do with any of our businesses."
But the company has told Canadian energy regulators a different story.

In 2009, Flint Hills Resources Canada LP, an Alberta-based subsidiary of Koch Industries, applied for—and won—"intervenor status" in the National Energy Board hearings that led to Canada's 2010 approval of its 327-mile portion of the pipeline. The controversial project would carry heavy crude 1,700 miles from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast.

In the form it submitted to the Energy Board, Flint Hills wrote that it "is among Canada's largest crude oil purchasers, shippers and exporters. Consequently, Flint Hills has a direct and substantial interest in the application" for the pipeline under consideration.

To be approved as an intervenor, Flint Hills had to have some degree of "business interest" in Keystone XL, Carole Léger-Kubeczek, a National Energy Board spokeswoman, told InsideClimate News. Intervenors are granted the highest level of access in hearings, with the option to ask questions. The Energy Board approved Canada's segment of the pipeline with little opposition, and Flint Hills did not exercise its right to speak. ...

...
Deep Involvement in Oil Sands Trade

The controversy over the Kochs and the pipeline was sparked by an InsideClimate News report from February. That analysis, also published on Reuters.com and later cited by various news organizations, found that Flint Hills is deeply involved in the Canada-Alberta oil sands trade and is well positioned to benefit if more heavy crude is exported to the United States.

The Koch brothers own nearly all of Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries, the second-largest private company in the United States. The energy and manufacturing conglomerate earns an estimated $100 billion in annual revenue from its network of subsidiaries—a mix of oil, gas, pipeline, chemical, fertilizer and paper and pulp companies. In addition to its Canadian operation, Koch's Flint Hills subsidiary operates oil refineries in Alaska, Texas and Minnesota as well as a dozen fuel terminals in the Midwest and Texas. ...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Pollution_and_resource_fines


In June 2003, the US Commerce Department fined Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hill Resources a $200,000 civil penalty. The fine settled charges that the company exported crude petroleum from the US to Canada without proper US government authorization. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said from July 1997 to March 1999, Koch Petroleum (later called Flint Hill Resources) committed 40 violations of Export Administration Regulations.^[41]
In 2006, Koch Industries’ subsidiary Flint Hill Resources was fined nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10 separate violations of the Clean Air Act at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another $60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations.^[42]


http://www.epa-echo.gov/cgi-bin/get1cReport.cgi?IDNumber=HQ-2008-0001&tool=eiciECHO

- Enforcement Case Report        
For Public Release - Unrestricted Dissemination.   Report Generated on 10/18/11
US Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance
   
- Case Number:     HQ-2008-0001        
Total Federal Penalty* Assessed or Agreed To (not necessarily an admission of liability)  Total Compliance Action Cost  $2,000,000     

==============================

KOCH INDUSTRIES has paid over $288,000,000.00 fines and penalties for pollution poisoning. This does not count the $293,000,000.00 jury award (or whatever the final secret settlement was) for the negligent homicide of Danielle Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone.

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-koch-brothers-danielle-dawn.html

Killer Koch Brothers -- Koch Industries Organized Crime Killed Danielle Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone. http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-koch-brothers-koch-industries.html

Koch Industries Pollution Poison http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-pollution-poison.html

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-2-koch-company-declared.html

(Part 1) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

(Part 1) Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

What’s that smell? Keystone XL

http://blog.sfgate.com/mbrune/2011/10/12/keystone-xl/


... Keystone XL, after all, is a 1,700-mile pipeline that will do nothing for Americans except seize their land through eminent domain, expose them to catastrophic oil spills and toxic pollution, and make domestic gas more expensive — all so a foreign oil company, TransCanada, can ship its tar-sands oil overseas from our ports. It’s such a bad idea that, in Texas, the Sierra Club and the Tea Party actually allied to oppose it.

... The more Americans learn about Keystone XL and the big-money campaign behind it, the worse the whole thing smells. Whether or not to permit this travesty is still one of the most important decisions facing President Obama. It’s time for him to clear the air, kill this Koch brothers-backed pipeline, and let the State Department get back to issuing passports and visas. http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageNavigator/20111010_Nov6_TarSandsRallyRSVP.html

Koch Bros. Accused of Stonewalling Congress on Their Keystone XL Pipeline Interest

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/25/idUS336798587820110525


... Representatives for billionaire brothers and oil magnates Charles and David Koch — major donors to GOP elections and influential conservative organizations — are evidently stonewalling the California Democrat about their possible financial interest in seeing the permit approved for TransCanada's proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline. ...


... "This pipeline and the legislation that supports it will enable the oil companies to charge American consumers more for their gasoline, while increasing carbon pollution and endangering precious water supplies," he continued. "We know who will lose. We also need to find out who will benefit." ...


... In February, the Los Angeles Times tallied up what kind of influence Koch might have on the House Energy and Commerce Committee via campaign contributions. Republicans, who gained a resounding majority in the lower chamber after the November midterm elections, started calling the shots at the House committee when the 112th Congress convened in January. L.A. Times reporters found that Koch donations to panel members outpaced even that of mega-energy companies such as Exxon Mobil. Records show that Koch and its employees gave $279,500 to 22 of the energy committee’s 31 Republicans and $32,000 to five Democrats. ...

... Is It All About the Money?
Koch Industries' representatives told Waxman's staff last week that their company has neither invested in Keystone XL nor taken a public stance on the pipeline project. But Waxman said they would not reveal if Koch would use the new pipeline to export oil from Canada, if the company has tar sands leases or if it has plans to produce oil from tar sands. "These are legitimate questions," Waxman pointed out. "Koch is a large political donor and a major backer of the tea party. Members and the public are entitled to know whether the company would be a prime beneficiary of this legislation." ...

... "There appears to be a significant discrepancy between the published reports that Koch Industries would be 'big winners' if the pipeline is approved and the statement of the Koch representatives that the pipeline has 'nothing to do' with Koch's businesses," Waxman and Rush wrote in their May 20 letter....

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/part-1-koch-company-declared.html

 

If you don't have what it takes to jail corporate criminals GET THE HELL OUT OF OWS!

http://occupywallst.org/forum/if-you-dont-have-what-it-takes-to-jail-corporate-c/

Posted Oct. 18, 2011, 1:34 a.m. EST (8 minutes ago) by Liann | edit | delete

If you don't have what it takes to jail corporate criminals GET THE HELL OUT OF OWS!
Corporate Serial Murderers are going unprosecuted because BOTH PARTIES are protecting them in exchange for petty cash bribes.
If you can't push hard to end this, then you deserve corporate slavery and the Corporate Hostile Takeover of America.
"Put the Killer Koch Brothers, heads of the Koch Organized Crime Gang, in handcuffs and make them do the perpwalk, and the 1-percenters will all sit up and notice and fear."
There is a concise one sentence demand of OCCUPY WALL STREET which gets to the heart of the problem and solves it, and it can be accomplished by the democrat Obama without any help from the Repugs. The pressure is on and the Koch-Murdoch-Axis is going down.
http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-tea-party.html
Koch Industries Cancer Causing Pollution http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-cancer-causing.html
Killer Koch Brothers -- Koch Industries Organized Crime Killed Danielle Dawn Smalley and Jason Stone. http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-koch-brothers-koch-industries.html
Koch-Klux-Klan Tea Party http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-klux-klan-tea-party.html
YouTube.com Links: Koch-Industries Tea-Party http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/youtubecom-links-koch-industries-tea.html
YouTube.com EXPOSED: Koch Industries and Cancer Risk http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/youtubecom-exposed-koch-industries-and.html
Google Koch-Industries Tea-Party Freedomworks http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-koch-industries-tea-party.html
The TEA PARTY is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Koch-Murdoch Axis. http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/tea-party-is-wholly-owned-subsidiary-of.html
David Koch - Evidence Of Direct Tea Party Link http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/david-koch-evidence-of-direct-tea-party.html
GOOGLE: Tea-Party Hutaree http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-tea-party-hutaree.html
"Put the Killer Koch Brothers, heads of the Koch ... http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/put-killer-koch-brothers-heads-of-koch.html
"Killer Koch Brothers" "Danielle Dawn Smalley" http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/killer-koch-brothers-danielle-dawn.html
"Koch Industries" "Tea Party" http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-tea-party.html
Google: "Koch Industries" "Organized Crime" http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-koch-industries-organized-crime.html

Everybody Help Koch Industries to Find Their 81 Tons of Missing Cancer-Causing Benzene

Everybody Help Koch Industries to Find Their 81 Tons of Still-Missing Cancer-Causing Benzene

Oh dear, Koch Industries, who have been fined over $200,000,000.00 in fines for poisoning Americans in six states never has found their missing cancer-causing benzene. It has been eleven years and it is still missing. Check your lungs, check your organ. See if you can find the missing deadly poison.

They nearly went to prison for this, but hurried up and gave almost $1,000,000 in campaign donations to George W. Bush, who was appointed president by the Supremes that year. Incoming Attorney General Ashcroft made it a high priority to drop 96 of the charges and reduce the last to poor book keepers. They lost it somewhere in their ledgers, they say. Still, paying $20,000,000.00 fine instead of $340,000,000.00 fine that the Kochs were facing, plus life in prison, was considered a good deal for the Kochs and Bush was president by a hair that might have been due to having an extra megabuck to throw around.

#573: 09-28-00 KOCH INDUSTRIES INDICTED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES AT REFINERY

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2000/September/573enrd.htm

Sep 28, 2000 – WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal grand jury in Corpus Christi, Tex., today returned a 97-count indictment against Koch Industries Inc., Koch ...

KOCH INDUSTRIES INDICTED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES AT REFINERY – SEPTEMBER 28, 2000

January 25, 2011 by Chemista http://renchemista.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/koch-industries-indicted-for-environmental-crimes-at-refinery-september-28-2000/

Profits from the Koch Brothers’ Iranian Treason Pay Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck

 http://www.politicususa.com/en/koch-brothers-iranian-treason-sarah-palin-glenn-beck

...
Based on an analysis of FEC filings and IRS disclosure, Kenneth P Vogel of Politico reported this morning, “POLITICO’s analysis of disclosures filed with the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Election Commission found that the large groups spend big bucks on salaries, like the $500,000 that FreedomWorks paid its chairman, Dick Armey, endorsements from radio hosts like Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, and speaking fees to movement heroes like Sarah Palin and Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, not to mention millions more on consultants and ad buys.”

Explaining how the groups like Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Works fund the Tea Party, Vogel detailed, “All the groups say they provide training, yard signs or help planning rallies and booking speakers. The Express has held dozens of rallies around the country and in April reported paying a $750 honorarium to Wurzelbacher, while Americans for Prosperity in 2010 spent $1.9 million on event planning, and $253,000 on honoraria including a $128,000 payment to the speakers’ bureau that represents Palin, with whom AFP had contracted to speak at its Defending the American Dream Summit in Clarkston, Mich., in May 2010.”
AFP also paid Palin to go to Wisconsin to tell the Fox brethern how bad unions were. Clearly we can see how well her employers treat people. Why would anyone need a union? Then there’s Glenn Beck, paid by Freedom Works. The Kochs denied having anything “specific” to do with Freedom Works, but Karoli at Crooks and Liars traced Koch brothers money into the origins of Freedom Works.

Apparently the notion that Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh et al are corporate whores is more accurate than many know. They are up for sale. For the right price, they will endorse an ideology on the air without disclosing their financial relationship to the “ideology”.

The unholy alliance between the Koch Brothers, the Tea Party and conservative “personalities” is funded in part by the shady secret sales of petrochemical equipment to Iran. These are the same Right wing personalities who make a lot of money selling “small government”, hatred of Muslims, a disturbingly devoid of patriotism version of nationalism, and unfettered markets.

The Kochs are not good people, but we knew that when we realized the Koch brothers inherited not just an oil company from their father, but also his affinity for the John Birch society. Utilizing a corporate culture of lawlessness in order to achieve unfathomable wealth, the Koch Brothers have been pushing for an even smaller government; ie, less regulations for them to have to lie, cheat, and steal their way around. ...


http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/everybody-help-koch-industries-to-find.html

Koch Industries Pollution Poison

"Koch Industries" Pollution Poison

Koch Industries' Plant Pollutes Streams, Poisons Residents

Brave New Films October 12, 2011   http://www.thenation.com/video/163939/koch-industries-plant-pollutes-streams-poisons-residents

“The Koch brothers are killing me and my family,” Norma Thompson says, surrounded by a collection of medicine and respirators. A long-time resident of Crossett, Arkansas, she and her neighbors suffer from an abnormally high rate of cancer, breathing problems and other health issues—which local leadership have traced to the rampant pollution emitted by Koch Industries' Georgia Pacific plant.
To learn more about the Koch brothers' abysmal environmental track record—and the "toxic cloud" they've created over Crossett—read Robert Greenwald's exposé here. You can contribute to Crossett's campaign against the Georgia Pacific plant here.

Koch Industries' Toxic Gifts to Wisconsin

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/05/10722/koch-industries-toxic-gifts-wisconsin

May 19, 2011 – Koch Industries ranks in the "top ten" of the Toxic 100 list of the Political Economy Research Institute, which identifies the top U.S. air polluters ...
 

REPORT: How Koch Industries Makes Billions Corrupting ...

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/01/147376/koch-polluter-bailout/

Mar 1, 2011 – Koch's Citizens for a Sound Economy front group ran ads claiming (Koch Industries created) particle pollution isn't harmful. One ad featured a ...

Cancer In The Water: Koch Industries Killing Arkansans - Blue ...

http://bluearkansasblog.com/?p=7158

5 days ago – ... pollution being dumped into the local river by Georgia-Pacific, which is owned by Koch Industries. The video shows a water filled with toxic ...

Pollution and resource fines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries#Pollution_and_resource_fines

In March 1999, Koch Petroleum Group, a Koch Industries subsidiary, pled guilty to charges that it had negligently dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of aviation fuel into wetlands near the Mississippi River from its refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota, and that it had also illegally dumped a million gallons of high-ammonia wastewater onto the ground and into the Mississippi River. Koch Petroleum paid the Dakota County Park System a $6 million fine and $2 million in remediation costs, and was ordered to serve three years of probation.[32]

In 1999, a federal jury found that Koch Industries had stolen oil from government and American Indian lands, had lied about its purchases more than 24,000 times, and was fined $553,504.[33]

In January 2000, a Koch Industries subsidiary, Koch Pipeline, agreed to a $35 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the State of Texas. This settlement, including a $30 million civil fine, was incurred for the firm's three hundred oil spills in Texas and five other states going back to 1990.[34][35][36] The spills resulted in more than 3 million US gallons (11,000 m3) of crude oil leaking into ponds, lakes, streams and coastal waters.[37]

In 2001, the company reached two settlements with the government. In April, the company reached a $20 million settlement in exchange for admitting to covering up environmental violations at its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas.[38][39] That May, Koch Industries paid $25 million to the federal government to settle a federal lawsuit that found the company had improperly taken more oil than it had paid for from federal and Indian land.[33][40]

In June 2003, the US Commerce Department fined Koch Industries subsidiary Flint Hill Resources a $200,000 civil penalty. The fine settled charges that the company exported crude petroleum from the US to Canada without proper US government authorization. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security said from July 1997 to March 1999, Koch Petroleum (later called Flint Hill Resources) committed 40 violations of Export Administration Regulations.[41]

In 2006, Koch Industries’ subsidiary Flint Hill Resources was fined nearly $16,000 by the EPA for 10 separate violations of the Clean Air Act at its Alaska oil refinery facilities, and required to spend another $60,000 on safety equipment needed to help prevent future violations.[42]

In 2007, Koch Nitrogen's plant in Enid, Oklahoma, was listed as the third highest company releasing toxic chemicals in Oklahoma, according to the EPA, ranking behind Perma-Fix Environmental Services in Tulsa and Weyerhaeuser Co. in Valliant.[43] The facility produces about 10% of the US national production of anhydrous ammonia, as well as urea and UAN.[44]

In 2010, Koch Industries was ranked 10th on the list of top US corporate air polluters, the “Toxic 100 Air Polluters,” by the Political Economic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[45]

The above list ($6M + $2M + $35M + $20M + $25M) totals $88 million, well below another list of EPA fines which are a matter of public record of 200 Million Dollars of fines.

http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/10/04/koch-industries-had-inside-man-at-the-epa/
Koch Industries had inside man at the EPA

The table below is taken from InflunceExplorer.com and shows EPA violations by Koch Industries and its subsidiaries dating back to 2001. The data is new to the site and allows access to information that was once hard to obtain.

Case Name	Defendant	Locations	Amount
Invista S.A.R.L. (National Case)	Invista S.A.R.L.	La Porte, Tx and others	$170,099,600
Invista S.A.R.L. (National Case)	Invista S.a.r.l.	Athens, Ga; Calhoun and others	$48,978,944
Invista S.A.R.L (National Case)	Invista S.a.r.l.	Martinsville, Va; Seaford and others	$24,672,736
Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Admin Order On Consent (Cercla)	Georgia-Pacific, LLC	Kalamazoo, Mi	$14,000,000
Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Consent Decree Ou 2-Willow Boul	Georgia Pacific Corp	Kalamazoo, Mi	$11,725,509
Koch Pipeline Company	Koch Pipeline Company	Algona, Ia	$2,306,588
Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River - Kalamazoo Mill And Hawthorne	Georgia-pacific Corporation	Kalamazoo, Mi	$2,029,207
Flint Hills Resources Alaska, Llc	Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC	North Pole, Ak	$2,000,000
Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products, Lp	Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP	Milford, Nj	$2,000,000
Colonial Pipeline Company	Colonial Pipeline Company	Winder, Ga	$1,582,600

During the span of years that Clay held his position on the federal advisory committee, Koch Industries reported spending close to $32 million to influence multiple issues including the environment in 1998 and between 2006-2009, according to information obtained from lobbyist disclosure forms and displayed on TransparencyData.

http://koch-industries-organized-crime.blogspot.com/2011/10/koch-industries-pollution-poison.html