Aside from all other crime in the Koch brothers' arsenal, not to mention
the pattern of psychopathy (for them and their loyal employees alike),
this bit about the justice department grand jury's lack of conviction
over obvious ongoing theft is the most irksome. It's downright eerie to
know these people hold such powerful positions.
I kept thinking as I read along, growing increasingly pained, that the
most potent opposition for such scum crook murderers might just be a few
brilliant computer hackers. The kind that could affect complete
financial ruin of key players. Industry regulation, environmental safety
rules, etc. obviously do little to stop Jo Worker from cowing to
employer demands/threats, though I doubt that all or even half of them
actually mind compromising safety or integrity. The oil industry,
particularly, is one big cancer, and the sooner it's a dinosaur, the
better. So, I guess the other greatest oppositional threat is government
financed installation of renewable technologies. Except that, not unlike
better nurturing and education, it's simply not fast enough. Calculating
the pollutants from just one adverse incident is challenging enough; to
estimate all such past occurrences, then to determine what's in store
for decades to come, is mind blowing. Better to take them out of the
ball park, and save what we can.
Natalia
On 10/2/2011 10:39 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
*'Theft is Widespread' *
The investigators caught Koch Oil's employees falsifying records so
that the company would get more crude than it paid for, shortchanging
Indian families, Elroy said. Koch's records showed that the company
took 1.95 million barrels of oil it didn't pay for from 1986 to 1988,
according to data compiled by the Senate.
"The theft is widespread and pervasive, and these people are being
horribly victimized," Elroy testified.
Elroy told the committee that Charles Koch gave a deposition that said
that no one could make exact measurements.
"There was a lot of uncertainty and tremendous variations," Elroy
quoted Koch as saying. The full deposition is sealed, which is
committee policy.
The committee concluded in a November 1989 report that Koch Oil had
engaged in a widespread, sophisticated scheme to steal millions of
barrels of oil. The Senate referred the case to the Justice
Department, which convened a grand jury that never indicted the company.
"We believe that our practices were consistent with industry
practice," Cohlmia says.
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