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Texas Grand Jury Indicts Wichita, Kan.-Based Petroleum Firm.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Mittelstadt, Michelle
Sep. 29--WASHINGTON--A federal grand jury in Texas returned a 97-count indictment Thursday against Koch Industries, its petroleum subsidiary and four employees, charging that they violated federal environmental laws at a Corpus Christi refinery and made false statements to regulators.
Justice Department officials described the investigation against the company, based in Wichita, Kan., as one of the largest criminal cases ever brought charging violation of the federal Clean Air Act. The indictments returned by a grand jury in Corpus Christi stem from a five-year investigation by federal and
Texas officials.
Koch, which had been bracing for the action for weeks, vigorously disputed prosecutors' charges, dismissing them as "a collection of...
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