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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:59 PM Jan 2015

TYT: Charles Koch Believes Justice System Needs Reform After He Has Faced Charges

"Charles Koch, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Koch Industries and leading conservative mega-donor, has set his sights on a new goal: reforming America's criminal justice system.

In an interview with The Wichita Eagle published Saturday, Koch said his own experiences in courts -- including the time a federal grand jury indicted Koch Industries on 97 counts of environmental crimes in 2000 -- prompted him to study the justice system at both the state and federal level. In that particular case, centered on a Koch Petroleum Group refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, prosecutors eventually dropped all but one of the charges after the corporation agreed to pay a settlement.

According to Koch's chief counsel Mark Holden, the case made the billionaire industrialist wonder "how the little guy who doesn't have Koch’s resources deals with prosecutions like that," the Eagle reports."

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TYT: Charles Koch Believes Justice System Needs Reform After He Has Faced Charges (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Jan 2015 OP

Yes. Charles is worried about the "little guy" ... immoderate Jan 2015 #1

Pretty much nailed his real concern...loss of profits because of pesky environmental regulations, Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #3

The little guy isn't poisoning our water supply. onecaliberal Jan 2015 #2

He's right though. Any system that charged him yet kept him out of prison needs reform. Scuba Jan 2015 #4

Reform? Pull my other finger. He wants it gone and replaced by direct in-your-face oligarchy. freshwest Jan 2015 #5

Oh, wow! Charlie Koch stands up for the little guy! Jack Rabbit Jan 2015 #6

koch brothers paid a fine for killing other humans. Madmiddle Jan 2015 #7

The "little guy" ... staggerleem Jan 2015 #8

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

1. Yes. Charles is worried about the "little guy" ...

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:05 PM

Jan 2015

... who doesn't have a fair shot at polluting the environment.

--imm

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

3. Pretty much nailed his real concern...loss of profits because of pesky environmental regulations,

Reply to immoderate (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:28 PM

Jan 2015

how come the little guy is not able to rape the Earth like the big guys?

onecaliberal

(32,864 posts)

2. The little guy isn't poisoning our water supply.

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:12 PM

Jan 2015

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

4. He's right though. Any system that charged him yet kept him out of prison needs reform.

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:53 PM

Jan 2015

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

5. Reform? Pull my other finger. He wants it gone and replaced by direct in-your-face oligarchy.

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 02:36 PM

Jan 2015

Jack Rabbit

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6. Oh, wow! Charlie Koch stands up for the little guy!

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:12 PM

Jan 2015

And I'm a retired kamikaze pilot.

Madmiddle

(459 posts)

7. koch brothers paid a fine for killing other humans.

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Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:34 PM

Jan 2015

staggerleem

(469 posts)

8. The "little guy" ...

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 04:11 PM

Jan 2015

... STOPS doing what the law says he should not do. He complies, and (possibly, if his sin was sufficiently egregious), loses his business.

But the Kochs, the Goldmans, and the JP Morgans of this world simply pay a fine (the "cost of doing business&quot , and keep right on doing whatever it was they were doing before the investigation.

And THAT, my friends is THE PROBLEM!

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