- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, employ controversial legal tactic to circumvent paying millions to sickened workers
Asbestos victims, their families and attorneys are claiming a Koch Industries-owned company and its lawyers are using a controversial bankruptcy maneuver to avoid paying millions in compensation to its former employees.
Workers at Georgia-Pacific, a paper and building products company, have been locked in a years-long battle with a company over claims asbestos in its products caused fatal cancers.
The case has come as the Koch brothers’ political network has pushed for legislation to protect companies facing asbestos-related claims and limit payouts for victims.
Koch Industries bought Georgia-Pacific in 2005. The company faces over 60,000 asbestos lawsuits but has not paid out anything since 2017 when the company conducted a controversial maneuver known as the “Texas two-step”.
I love pissing on a grave just as much as the next guy, but allowing anyone to convince you that the Koch “brothers” are to blame might accidentally distract you from the fact that the Koch name is so powerful and evil that even in death, David Koch has more political weight than you’ll ever have. We’re the power that runs the American machine, yet dead people money is more powerful than us.
Remember: half of the Koch brothers is dead and nothing will get better when the other half dies unless you include the assholes who are more willing to help rich dead people than the starving masses. Eat the rich and fuck their corrupt political counterparts.
The remaining brother is throwing metric fucktons of money at right wing lobbyists, politicians, colleges, and YouTube right wing grifters who brainwash young white men to their ideology. His poison will live long after he’s dead.