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Petrochemical Firm Guilty of Hiding Pollution Violations at Texas Oil Refinery.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2001
By James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 10--CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas--A subsidiary of the petrochemical giant Koch Industries Inc. was convicted Monday of concealing environmental violations at its oil refinery here and assessed the most expensive criminal pollution penalty in Texas history.
In a plea bargain reached with Justice Department attorneys, Koch agreed to pay $20 million in fines and community service projects. In return, the company put to rest a five-year legal battle with the federal government and spared four of its employees potential prison sentences.
The agreement came just as a criminal trial on environmental pollution charges was scheduled to begin for the Wichita, Kan.-based...
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