The people who produced this Anti-Gore video are a lobby group called Americans for Prosperity. AFP was started by Koch Industries, an energy company and the
largest privately owned corporation in the US worth $90 Billion.
David Koch is the Director of AFP and half-owner of Koch Industries.
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/index.php?static=455
Gee, they don't sound very friendly to the environement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
In 1989, the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate Committee on Investigations claimed that "Koch Oil, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is the most dramatic example of an oil company stealing by deliberate mismeasurement and fraudulent reporting." (Palast p.150) During the Clinton administration, Koch was charged with 315 acts of pollution, especially at its Pine Bend Refinery facility in Rosemount, Minnesota. Koch Industries denied the allegations, and the cases were settled in January 2000 for $35 million in fines.
Koch was separately charged with 97 counts of covering up evidence in the case of a benzene spill of 91 metric tons in Corpus Christi, Texas. The government sought fines as high as $350 million. Four of its employees were also charged individually with criminal offenses in the case, facing up to 35 years in prison. During this time, Koch donated $800,000 to the Bush election fund and other Republican candidates. In 2000, the Justice Department under President Clinton reduced the number of counts from 97 to 11 to 9 to 7. Just before the case was to go to trial, the Justice Department dropped the remaining seven counts and settled the case for $20 million. Koch pled guilty to one count of concealing evidence, which they in fact had self-reported in 1996, and the criminal charges against the employees, personally, were dropped.
David Koch is the Director of AFP and half-owner of Koch Industries.
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/index.php?static=455
Gee, they don't sound very friendly to the environement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
In 1989, the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate Committee on Investigations claimed that "Koch Oil, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is the most dramatic example of an oil company stealing by deliberate mismeasurement and fraudulent reporting." (Palast p.150) During the Clinton administration, Koch was charged with 315 acts of pollution, especially at its Pine Bend Refinery facility in Rosemount, Minnesota. Koch Industries denied the allegations, and the cases were settled in January 2000 for $35 million in fines.
Koch was separately charged with 97 counts of covering up evidence in the case of a benzene spill of 91 metric tons in Corpus Christi, Texas. The government sought fines as high as $350 million. Four of its employees were also charged individually with criminal offenses in the case, facing up to 35 years in prison. During this time, Koch donated $800,000 to the Bush election fund and other Republican candidates. In 2000, the Justice Department under President Clinton reduced the number of counts from 97 to 11 to 9 to 7. Just before the case was to go to trial, the Justice Department dropped the remaining seven counts and settled the case for $20 million. Koch pled guilty to one count of concealing evidence, which they in fact had self-reported in 1996, and the criminal charges against the employees, personally, were dropped.
