"One rule to Ring them all, One rule to find them, One rule to bring them all and in the whiteness bind them to justice." - with apologies to Tolkien. It appears that in the onset of the new US administration in 2001, there were Two Rules - one for the financial "elite" and another for the rest of us, as per this excerpt - "The Bloomberg Markets article reported that a former Koch employee said she was told to falsify data in a report to the state on the emissions. The company was reportedly facing potential penalties of some $350 million, but in early 2001 the newly installed Bush Administration’s Justice Department negotiated a settlement in which many of the charges were dropped and the company pleaded guilty to concealing violations of air quality laws and paid just $10 million in criminal fines and $10 million for environmental projects in the Corpus Christi area."
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:03:23 +0000
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