How Koch Oil Got Caught Stealing Oil From Indian Reservation & Stole Income From Poor Residents

[kpete]

March 25, 2011
Koch And Native-American Reservation Oil Theft

-- by Dave Johnson

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Theft Of Oil From Reservations

Oppose The Future has the story of how Koch Oil was caught stealing oil from an Indian Reservation, reducing or removing the incomes of so many poor residents.

At some point in 1987, Thurmon Parton’s royalty checks for the three oil wells he inherited from his mother suddenly dropped from $3,000 a month to a little over $1,000. He and his sister, Arnita Gonzalez, members of the Caddo tribe, lived near Gracemont, Oklahoma, a town of a few hundred people on a small grid on the prairie.

Those modest royalties were the only source of income each of them had.

. . . What happened to Mr. Parton, Ms. Gonzales and Ms. Limpy had nothing to do with the wells or how they were producing. Their oil was being stolen. And all of the evidence pointed to the same culprit: Koch Oil, a division of Koch Industries.

This is an important story today because it helps us understand the nature of the Koch operation, which has so much influence over our politics and even livelihoods today. It also helps us understand why our government not only appears to be influenced, but often to be outright corrupted. From the story,

http://opposethefuture.com/post/3899905675/kochoil

In the spring of 1989, a Special Committee on Investigations of the United States Senate’s Select Committee on Indian Affairs was formed to look into concerns that the path to tribal self-rule was impeded by fraud, corruption and mismanagement from all sides.

... Within a span of months, the Special Committee determined that “Koch Oil was engaged in systematic theft, stealing millions in Oklahoma alone.” BLM, even with a tip that Koch was behaving improperly, hadn’t done a thing.

much more (including how Koch got away with it!!!) : http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2011/03/koch_and_native.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SeeingTheForest+%28Seeing+The+Forest%29

[Cyrano]

1. Those who have virtually everything want only one thing. MORE.

[freshwest]

3. I believe this is a game for them.

[tinrobot]

4. Money is an abstraction to them.

If you can't understand what one dollar means to a starving person, then you should never be allowed to have billions.

[Tippy]

2. K&R..sure didn't suprise me to read this......