Since When Do Nuclear Companies Get Deferred Prosecution Agreements? (CCR)

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Since When Do Nuclear Companies Get Deferred Prosecution Agreements? Since Now
20 Corporate Crime Reporter 5(1), January 20, 2006

... For lying to the government. About critical safety problems at a nuclear power facility.

In the deferred prosecution agreement made public today, FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company admits that its employees, acting on its behalf, knowingly made false representations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the course of attempting to persuade the NRC that its northern Ohio Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station was safe to operate beyond December 31, 2001 ...

Originally intended for juvenile delinquents, deferred prosecution agreements are increasingly being used to shield large corporations from criminal liability. (See “Crime Without Conviction – Report Details Special Deals with Major Corporations,” 20 Corporate Crime Reporter 1(1), December 28, 2005.) ...

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/firstenergy012006.htm

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Since bushco** took over. nt

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2. Remember this little outrage...

Concerning Koch industries? The same Koch family that Dorothy Bush (chimp sister)married into when Poppy was in the White House? She had her wedding reception at Camp David...

The Clinton Administration charged Koch Industries with $352 million in pollution and hazardous waste violations. The Bush Administration dropped the charges when Koch Industries agreed to settle for $332 million less. Shortly after that,the Bush Justice Department settled the lease-cheating case for $20 million, saving Koch Industries another $194 million

.The U.S. Department of Justice charged Koch Industries with 97 counts of defying federal hazardous waste and clean air-acts when it knowingly emitted benzene fumes and then lied about its actions when questioned. In 2001, Koch Industries agreed to a $20 million settlement, a drastically smaller sum than it would have paid if convicted

$30 Million Settlement Approved - US v Koch U. S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore approved the Department of Justice and State of Texas' settlement with Koch Industries for $30 million in civil penalties and an additional $5 million in supplemental environmental projects to be funded by Koch. This is the largest penalty imposed on a company under federal environmental laws, and is based upon spills of at least 41,000 barrels of oil and other petroleum, resulting in over three hundred violations of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 in six states. The largest single spill was approximately100,000 gallons of crude oil which caused a 12-mile oil slick on Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi BayEroded and broken pipelines caused the spills. Six of the spills were into ponds, lakes and rivers." (http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txs/newsletter/pdf/2000m

A year after a pipeline rupture resulted in the biggest spill-related fish kill in Iowa history, the company responsible hasn't paid a dime for wiping wildlife from 48 miles of streams.
State lawyers and Koch Pipeline Co. representatives are negotiating how the firm should pay for damaging Lotts Creek and the East Fork of the Des Moines River in the Algona area
www.stb.dot.gov

[struggle4progress]

3. !

[acmejack]

5. The Koch family are interesting indeed

They are generous donors to a number of nasty little interest groups, such as these in this representative sampling in this snip from Center for Public Integrity:
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The Cato Institute. Charles Koch was a co-founder of this libertarian think tank in 1977. Koch foundations have helped fund Cato since then. David Koch is on the board of directors of Cato.

Tax Foundation. Koch group money rescued this financially-troubled think tank in 1989. Charles Koch received the group's Distinguished Service Award in 2000.

Institute for Justice. Charles Koch provided the seed money to start this libertarian legal foundation in 1991 and the brothers have provided additional funding since then.

Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment. Koch family foundation money provides significant funding for this group, which holds free seminars for federal judges at its ranch near Big Sky, Mont.

Federalist Society. Koch provides substantial funding to this group which says its purpose is to create a "conservative and libertarian intellectual network that extends to all levels of the legal community."
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Tons more information at the link!

http://www.publicintegrity.org/oil/report.aspx?aid=347

[stillcool]

6. This one is kind of cool....

http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Koctopus_01.html :hi:

[acmejack]

7. Thanx!

I'm saving this gem.

[acmejack]

4. They have a checkered past too!

"The 2003 North America blackout was a massive power outage which occurred throughout parts of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout
U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force report placed the blame for the blackout on FirstEnergy Corporation

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8. !