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Asphalt , chemicals , commodities trading , energy , fibers , fertilizers , finance , minerals , natural gas , plastics, petroleum , pulp and paper , ranching [ 1 ] US$ 100 billion (2009) [ 2 ] Koch Industries, Inc. ( /ˈkoʊk/ ), is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita , Kansas , United States, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments.Charles G. Koch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles de Ganahl Koch ( / ˈ k oʊ k / ; born November 1, 1935) is co-owner, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Koch Industries Inc., the second-largest privately held company by revenue in the United States according to a 2010 Forbes survey. [ 5 ] He was ranked 18th on Forbes World's Billionaires list of 2011 (and 4th on the Forbes 400), with an estimated net worth of $25 billion, deriving from his 42% stake in Koch Industries. [ 3 ] His brother David H. Koch , also owns 42% of Koch Industries, and serves as Executive Vice President. The brothers inherited the business from their father, Fred C. Koch , and have since expanded the business to 2,600 times its inherited size.
US$ 22.5 billion (2011) [ 4 ] David Hamilton Koch ( / ˈ k oʊ k / ; born May 3, 1940) is an American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer. He is a co-owner (with older brother Charles ) and an executive vice president of Koch Industries , a conglomerate that is the second-largest privately held company in the U.S. [ 7 ] Koch is the second-richest resident of New York City as of 2010. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He is a major patron of the arts and a funder of conservative and libertarian political causes, including funding groups involved with the American Tea Party movement . [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Among other charities, he has contributed to Lincoln Center , Sloan Kettering , a fertility clinic at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the American Museum of Natural History 's David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing. [ 9 ] The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet was renamed the David H.
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[2010] How Oil Heir and New York Arts Patron David Koch Became the Tea Party's Wallet -- New York Magazine
B illionaire philanthropist David Koch is in his Madison Avenue office showing me one of his more unusual possessions, a mechanical-looking doodad on the coffee table next to the couch. “This is a plastic version of my artificial knees,” he says. “If you spent as many years as I did begging girls for favors, you’d have bad knees, too.” The 70-year-old Koch actually wore out his knees playing basketball.
A quite close (and not very critical to say the least) portrait of David Koch. by Sep 1
[2010] The billionaire Koch brothers’ war against Obama : The New Yorker
On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that. Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s co-chairs, Blaine Trump, in a peach-colored gown, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, in emerald green. Kennedy’s mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, had been a patron of the ballet and, coincidentally, the previous owner of a Fifth Avenue apartment that Koch had bought, in 1995, and then sold, eleven years later, for thirty-two million dollars, having found it too small.A deep analysis of the Koch political strategy, from the 70's to now. Those guys are awfully smart, and their actual strategy seems to begin paying back. by Sep 1
The Official Koch Industries Reply to The New Yorker Hit Piece - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
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Neither libertarians nor the Kochs should try to hide their relationship. - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine
[02-2011] Koch Whore | The Beast
Carpenter’s quote made me wonder: who could get through to Gov. Walker?
Scott Walker is currently embroiled in a dispute over public sector pay Photograph: Pool/REUTERS The Republican governor at the centre of the union-busting protests in the US has been embarrassed by a prank call that he believed was from one of his billionaire backers. On the recording of the call, which has been released online, the Republican governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker tells a caller impersonating one of the rightwing Koch brothers that he is looking forward to flying to California to celebrate with them once the battle with the unions was won, and jokes about taking a baseball bat to slug Democratic leaders.
Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, falls for phone prank | World news | The Guardian
Scott Walker Gets Punked By Journalist Pretending To Be David Koch
Here's something for your "can this possibly be for real" file this morning. Over at the Buffalo Beast -- the former print alt-weekly turned online newspaper founded by onetime editor Matt Taibbi, typically best known for its annual list of "The 50 Most Loathsome Americans" -- there appear to be recordings of a phone call between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and current editor Ian Murphy.
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