It wasn’t much of a surprise that Sarah Palin decided not to run for president in 2012. Though she has teased her supporters for months about a possible run, including doing a bus tour in swing states, she wasn’t a serious contender. Even most Republicans didn’t want her to run.
A long cover story about “The secret sins of Koch Industries” in the November issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine is creating a stir. The article recounts various environmental and legal problems at the Wichita-based company, including how a French subsidiary used bribes to win business deals and sold millions of dollars of equipment to Iran. Melissa Cohlmia, Koch’s director of communications, said in the article that the company has learned lessons from past mistakes and now has a good relationship with environmental regulators and complies with all rules. Koch’s website also has a long response to the article, which it says “relied on flawed information from dishonest sources.”
