
Part One: Charles Koch: The Luke Skywalker of Rich People
Behind the Bastards
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Koch Industries
In 2000 Koch Industries was indicted on 97 counts of being shady as fuck. During the trial it was revealed that just refitting the refinery to make it put out the legal amount of emissions would have cost $7 million. So they were willing to lie and put out huge amounts of poison rather than spend $7 million on a refinery that made $176 million in annual profits. In 1978 he contributed an article to the libertarian reader titled, let's hear it for the first amendment while we still can. It ends with a plea from money that says, this coupon fight censorship.
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