The volume of Koch Industries’ toxic output is staggering.
history, resulting from the explosion of a defective pipeline that incinerated a pair of Texas teenagers. And in 1999, a jury handed down to Koch’s pipeline company what was then the largest wrongful-death judgment of its type in U.S. Under the nearly five-decade reign of CEO Charles Koch, the company has paid out record civil and criminal environmental penalties. The company’s troubled legal history – including a trail of congressional investigations, Department of Justice consent decrees, civil lawsuits and felony convictions – augmented by internal company documents, leaked State Department cables, Freedom of Information disclosures and company whistle-blowers, combine to cast an unwelcome spotlight on the toxic empire whose profits finance the modern GOP.
But Koch Industries is not entirely opaque.
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