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[h=1]Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales[/h]
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Will the Teabaggers care that their financial benefactors are corrupt bastards do deals with Iran?
This is the definition of hypocrisy. These turkey's don't like Government regulation, AND they also don't care for a level playing field.
In May 2008, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., one of the world’s largest privately held companies, sent Ludmila Egorova-Farines, its newly hired compliance officer and ethics manager, to investigate the management of a subsidiary in Arles in southern France. In less than a week, she discovered that the company had paid bribes to win contracts.“I uncovered the practices within a few days,” Egorova- Farines says. “They were not hidden at all.”
She immediately notified her supervisors in the U.S. A week later, Wichita, Kansas-based Koch Industries dispatched an investigative team to look into her findings, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.
By September of that year, the researchers had found evidence of improper payments to secure contracts in six countries dating back to 2002, authorized by the business director of the company’s Koch-Glitsch affiliate in France.
“Those activities constitute violations of criminal law,” Koch Industries wrote in a Dec. 8, 2008, letter giving details of its findings. The letter was made public in a civil court ruling in France in September 2010; the document has never before been reported by the media.
Will Fox cover this story?
Will the Teabaggers care that their financial benefactors are corrupt bastards do deals with Iran?
This is the definition of hypocrisy. These turkey's don't like Government regulation, AND they also don't care for a level playing field.