
Part Two: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People
Behind the Bastards
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The Senate Campaign Finance Investigation
In 1996, Charles Koch and his brother funneled millions of dollars towards a variety of right-wing candidates. The blowback from all of this dark money in, you know, rampant anti-Semitism led to a Senate investigation on illegal fundraising. Republicans focused on investigating whether the Clinton re-election campaign had illegally accepted money from China while Democrats focused on determining whether or not the Koch brothers and their fellow rich people had violated campaign finance law for partisan gain.
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