Rolling Stone recently published a lo-o-o-o-ng expose of the brothers, which you can read here. Or you can just read the brothers' rap sheet below.
- In 1999, a Koch pipeline company paid what was then the largest wrongful-death judgment of its kind in U.S. history,after a defective pipeline exploded and killed two teenagers.
- Between 1929 and 1931, the Kochs' father did business with Josef Stalin, building oil refinery units in the Soviet Union.
- In 1974 Koch Industries was caught overcharging customers and had to pay $20 million in rebates and future price reductions.
- In 1980, Koch Industries pleaded guilty to five felonies for illegally using frontmen in a federal lottery for exploration tracts.
- In 1988 a Senate committee concluded the Kochs pilfered $31 million in oil from Native American reservations.
- From 1988 through 1996, the Kochs' poorly maintained pipelines spilled 11.6 million gallons of oil; the company paid a $30 million penalty for 312 oil spills in six states.
- Thoughout the 1990s, the Kochs dumped 600,000 gallons of jet fuel into wetlands near the Mississippi River and ammonia-laced wastewater into the river itself; they ultimately pleaded guilty to "negligent discharge of a harmful quantity of oil" and "negligent violation of the Clean Water Act." It paid a $6 million fine and $2 million in remediation costs.
- Until as recently as 2007, a Koch subsidiary sold oil equipment to Iran despite U.S. trade sanctions against the country because it sponsored terrorism.
- The Kochs paid a $3 million fine in 2004 for helping to manipulate the California electricity market, driving up prices and causing rolling blackouts.
- They paid a $20 million fine for venting massive quantities of benzene at a refinery in Corpus Christi in 2000 and then trying to cover it up.
- In June, the EPA noted a Koch facility violated the Clean Air Act with petcoke particulates that endanger the health of Chicagoans.
