William Koch, Billionaire Koch Brother, Accused Of Imprisoning Executive

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

William Koch, Billionaire Koch Brother, Accused Of Imprisoning Executive
Posted: 10/13/2012 9:39 am EDT


Billionaire William Koch is facing a lawsuit in federal court from a former top-level employee who claims the energy mogul lured him to a secluded property, where he was imprisoned and interrogated for a period of time, according to a report in Courthouse News.


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Martensen alleges that the multiple-day-long incident was set off by an anonymous letter accusing Martensen of mismanaging and stealing from Oxbow Carbon & Minerals International while serving as the company's vice president. That accusation prompted the company's leadership to read Martensen's letters and emails without his knowledge, the suit charges, which led the company to discover that Martensen had deep reservations about the legality of the company's tax avoidance strategies.

Martensen alleges he was told by his superiors that he was transferred overseas to Asia so that the Koch company could avoid paying U.S. taxes on some $200,000,000 in profits.

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Martensen had a flight booked from Aspen, but was not permitted to travel to the airport, he claims, as a local sheriff worked with Koch's employees to "make sure you don't wander off," according to the complaint. He says he was subjected to a several-hour interrogation, fired, held against his will on the property, then forced to fly in a private plane to San Francisco, accompanied by a man he believed to be armed.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/13/william-koch-kirby-martensen_n_1962400.html

[SDjack]

1. Mr. Scott: Please don't fly in any small airplanes. nt

[tabasco]

2. Kidnapping is a crime for us little people

Maybe not for billionaires.

[yurbud]

24. if you're a billionaire, you can eat live babies on live TV and not get a slap on the wrist

and most of the media would talk about how the little bastard babies were asking for it.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

27. That's incredibly

cynical and incredibly astute.

[newspeak]

49. anyone remember a dupont and murder?

i believe the victim was an olympic wrestler?

just who are our government law officers working for? the plutocrats must be paying them more than we do and the constitution and bill of rights is just a piece of paper-a document that is superseded by any and all who are rich enough.

[yurbud]

52. If there was just one kind of law, those who crashed Wall St would be treated like terrorists

since the caused far more damage to us and the world than any ten Osama bin Laden's could do in their wildest wet dream.

[JackN415]

3. is it just me? but the Koch brothers remind me of...

the Duke brothers in Trading Places (1983)

[socialist_n_TN]

11. Well they were DEFINITELY the model for the Motch Bros..........

in that Will Ferrell movie out this Summer. And the title escapes me at this point (was it called "The Campaign"?). They actually threatened legal action because of it.

[classykaren]

38. You are right Jack

[silvershadow]

4. I have no idea if any of this is true, but it sure would be nice if the story has legs...

[Liberalynn]

7. Agreed

[TheDebbieDee]

18. I'm tempted to believe this really happened simply because it sounds TOO crazy to be true!

People who do things like this BANK on the story sounding SO absurd that the victim will sound unhinged and no one will believe him/her!

[Angry Dragon]

5. The Cult of Kock Brothers

[WCGreen]

51. The Cult of Cock...

[Diclotican]

6. kpete

kpete

You doesn't get rich by playing nice. You get rich by bending all the rules in the book - and then some.. You know you are over the law anyway - rules and laws is for the "little people", not for the "upper-rich class".. Have never been, will never be it...

The names is changed over the last thousand years - but the system is more or less the same..

Hopefully mr Martensen will go forward with this - and maybe let some light into how they got so rich... The Kock brothers that is...

Diclotican

[Sekhmets Daughter]

28. Tragically true.

I read that among their other crimes they have been stealing oil from the owners of single wells on Indian Reservations by paying them for less than the amount of oil actually pumped. I think the one thing that can be safely said about all billionaires is that they are sick with greed.

[Jack Rabbit]

34. We know how the Koch brothers got rich

They inherited their Dad's money.

[freshwest]

41. +1,000. Good to see you, Diclotican.

[Diclotican]

42. freshwest

freshwest

Im still here

Diclotican

[glinda]

8. If Romney wins this will never see the light of day.

[underthematrix]

9. Just imagine. If you had to deal

with all these batshit crazy traitors and run the country. There is only one reason anyone would vote for mittnocchio and lyinryan and it ain't their mercurial policies.

[sunyasi]

10. Fargin Bustards

We need to keep referring to this as the Oxbow Incident!

[LynneSin]

12. This needs to go DU Front page

We need to show people what kind of sick pups these Koch brothers are!

[lilithsrevenge12]

13. I'm not sure how to respond to this...

I keep going back and forth between laughing and scratching my head. This could be an Onion story.

[classykaren]

39. No it is on Huffington

[trailmonkee]

14. Send the Fuckers to Jail!

[Tom Ripley]

15. All of the Koch brothers are scum. Frederick R. Koch bestowed New York Arts Council money to...

young men he favored.

[maindawg]

16. that is called kidnaping

why isnt the FBI involved?
They need to protect this witness. The Kochs are very dangerous criminals.

[Baitball Blogger]

17. The Koch Brothers: A sovereign State of mind.

[trailmonkee]

19. will the Romney Campaign be Returning the Koch donations?

[Horse with no Name]

20. Wow.

I believe every word of this.

I also believe that it will never be prosecuted.

[heaven05]

32. ?

they, the kock brothers, are a different class. Nothing will ever happen to them except a natural death of old fucking age. They are american aristocracy supporting mittytwit and queen anne, the titular rulers of the american aristocracy. Classless society my foot!!!!! democracy? yeah, very small d. Moneyocracy? very large M. We have been trying to regain our democracy that was stolen, every since the obvious presidential shenanigans of 2000- 2004. Looks like some more shenanigans in the making here in 2012! And if it is stolen, won't be a damn thing done about it. sheeple will go about their fearful days looking over their shoulders for the storm troopers.

[patrice]

21. K&R

[DonRedwood]

23. How come you only have two posts and they are both links to a KOCH PR piece?

THey paying you a salary?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021531262#post7

[jhawker]

26. OH please

I'm not a shill. I just want to get this word out. The Kochs *never* give out interviews. I used to live in Wichita and I can only remember one interview they gave with the Wichita Eagle, about 12 years ago or so. I have no idea what this interview will say. Even if it's a PR piece, it's going to be worth reading, either way. And do not ever, ever consider me a shill. I may be newly registered just so I could post this but I'm a long-time reader.

[Ruby the Liberal]

30. I see you can't answer this now

but what on earth makes you think anyone here would be waiting with baited breath to hear what either of those two immoral assclowns has to say?

[MuseRider]

31. Those of us who live in Kansas

will be interested. You think their influence is bad nationally? Try living here.

[patrice]

35. +++++++++++++++++++1

[Confusious]

33. Some of might find it interesting

To see what propaganda they're putting out.

[patrice]

25. KOCH Tax Dodging???? I wonder if this has anything to do with why Mitt won't show his tax returns.

[randr]

29. Living near the Koch compound

is not a pleasant experience for locals of all political persuasions. He intimidates people with his public land grabs and parading around in his personal military tank. Look up "paonia cherry day parade" for an eye opener.
People working for and supportive of him are locally referred to as "Koch Roaches"

[bobthedrummer]

36. K&R

Madison-based The Center for Media and Democracy has extensive documentation and archives about many RW criminals. Check them out below.
SourceWatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org

[toby jo]

37. koch roaches - thanks for that - gotta finish that deck today :-)

[Trillo]

40. Why is this a civil lawsuit?

'a local sheriff worked with Koch's employees to "make sure you don't wander off"'

[unapatriciated]

46. sometimes you can expose more with a civil suit,

especially when local authorities do not have enough evidence to go forward.

[lovuian]

43. 200,000,000 would be a nice donation to the Debt of America

good luck Martensen

[PA Democrat]

44. This scumbag sued his own mother (and 2 brothers)

forcing his 82 year-old mother to take the witness stand shortly after she suffered a stroke. The Kochs are filth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/garden/shopping-with-william-i-koch-everything-is-hardly-enough.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

[Patiod]

48. he has a bust of Caligula outside his bedroom?

Not a bit surprised.

[lonestarnot]

55. How appropriate!

[QuietLight]

45. These rich SOBs should be cut down to size.

If anyone else was even accused of this they would have been arrested immediately. Obama should send the Justice Dept. to investigate this or this guy will get away with anything. I'm tired of always seeing rich people get off easy. We need an attorney general like Bobby Kennedy. At least he had some guts.

[bardahl]

47. Legitimate kidnappings

I've read that Obama's AG Eric Folder is too overworked chasing down medical pot smokers in California to deal with low priority stuff like legitimate kidnappings.

[newspeak]

50. and how does this apply to the thread?

If you're going to rant about it, at least include ashcroft's DOJ arresting chong for, I believe, one of his employees selling drug paraphernalia, not even drugs. I'm for the legalization of MJ, especially industrialized hemp. but, it's not going to happen when the oil industry, big pharma, and others have a vested interest in their other products. hemp would be a boon to farmers, especially in the south. cloth, paper, oil and even flour are things made from hemp. It once was called "the poor man's plant." but the corporations and the plutocracy don't like it, if they did it would be legal tomorrow. anyway, the "war on drugs", using our money, is making big money (our dime) for certain people. take away the black market, down goes prison count, violence and increase revenue by taxing it.

[Overseas]

53. Googled it and will Google again. Keep the story hot.

[Tx4obama]

54. Kick! n/t