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Ninety percent of the corporations that were criminally convicted between 1989 and 2000 donated overwhelmingly to the Republican Party in 2012.
A study by the Corporate Crime Reporter, Russell Mokhiber, found that, Ten out of the current top 100 donors to the 2012 political campaign have ple[a]d guilty to crimes. The criminal-convictions file that was considered in his study included convictions during the ten years between 1989 and 2000.
An examination of this list, by the present reporter, indicates that nine of these ten big-donating criminal firms gave far more to Republican political campaigns than to Democratic ones. Only one firm, Pfizer, donated more to Democrats; and they contributed only slightly more to Democrats than to Republicans. By contrast, each one of the nine big-donating Republican criminal corporations Honeywell, Lockheed, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boeing, GE, Northrop, Koch Industries, Raytheon, and Exxon donated far more to Republicans than to Democrats; and the most lopsidedly political criminal firm of them all, Koch Industries (which organized the Tea Party starting when Obama first entered the White House), donated a whopping 98% to Republicans.
At least according to this measure, criminal firms prefer Republican politicians overwhelmingly. It is rare, almost unheard of, to find a population that is so lopsidedly favorable to one Party over the other, as this one is: 90% vs. 10%.
Mokhiber provided the donation-figures, for each of these ten convicted firms, based on federal filings.
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17764-study-90-of-criminal-corporations-are-republican
It's official. Republicans coddle criminals, as long as they're superrich.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Rawhide.
banned from Kos
(4,017 posts)How is Honeywell or Boeing criminal?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)Federal Contract $: $2546.0m
Total Number of Instances: 41
Total Misconduct dollar amount: $ 703.5m
Instances of Misconduct:
1. Asbestos Litigation
For several years, Honeywell has been trying to settle tens of thousands of asbestos-related injury claims i.... more»
2. Cost/Labor Mischarge
According to a GAO report cited by Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio, Honeywell Information Systems paid $592,779 to settle allegations of cost/labor mischarging.... more»
3. Defective Products (2001)
4. Failure to Report Hazardous Chemical Releases
5. Labor Law Violations
etc...
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/index.cfm/1,73,221,html?ContractorID=30
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)in a 2009 DHS report indicating such groups pose the greatest threat to America, its people and government, a threat greater than posed by Islamic extremists, becomes more compelling by the day.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)Got any percentages?
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)I don't understand.
Rotten at the core.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)A person has to have a serious lack of ethics and morals in order to identify as a republican.
End of story.