Exclusive: The Koch Brothers' Million- Dollar Donor Club. Joe Craft: Joseph Craft is president, CEO, and chairman of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that gave $2. His family is reportedly worth $1. Richard De. Vos. The De. Information about the Child Protective Services, Foster Care, and Juvenile Justice systems. Testimony, studies, and reform efforts are examined. Voses: Rich and Helen De. Vos hail from Michigan. The cofounder of Amway and owner of the NBA's Orlando Magic,Rich De. Vos is reportedly worth in the ballpark of $4. The Richard and Helen De. Vos Foundation funds conservative Christian groups such as Focus on the Family. The De. Voses are big enough political donors to have their own profile at Open. Secrets. org. The Farmers: Dick Farmer is from Ohio. The founder and former CEO of the Cintas Corporation, his story is literally rags- to- riches: He turned his father's Depression- era rag- cleaning business into a $3. Farmer and his wife, Joyce, are longtime Republican boosters; during the 2. The Friesses: Foster Friess founded the investment firm Friess Associates in 1. Lynn; in 2. 00. 1, he sold a majority share for $2. Friess is a champion of conservative Christian causes and one of Wyoming's richest men. His son, Steve Friess, helps him run the family's philanthropic foundation. Jerry has pursued oil exploration and development in the United States, Canada, and Russia. He now serves under Ross Perot's son as vice chairman of Hillwood International Energy, which has operations in Iraq and Jordan as well as the United States and Russia. He also has ties to Hilarion Alfeyev, an anti- abortion Russian Orthodox bishop. Read our inside account of the Koch brothers' Vail seminar, and listen to the exclusive audio. Twice a year, the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David. Directed by Lyndon Chubbuck. With Brian Krause, Pamela Anderson, David Warner, Dean Stockwell. Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording. The Gilliams: Richard Gilliam and wife, Leslie, are natives of southwest Virginia. Richard founded the Cumberland Resources Corporation, which was one of the nation's largest private coal mining companies when Massey Energy bought it for nearly $1 billion in March 2. He's now a director with the Vancouver- based mining corporation Endurance Gold. The Griffins: Ken and Anne Dias Griffin are a hedge fund power couple from Chicago who wed in 2.
Ken is the founder and CEO of Citadel and is reportedly worth $2. Anne founded one of the nation's largest woman- run hedge funds, Aragon Global Management. Ken bundled money for both President Barack Obama and Sen. John Mc. Cain during the 2. The Haworths: Richard . The company reported sales of $1. He is married to Ethie Haworth and has donated more than $1. Republican causes, according to Open. Secrets. org. Diane Hendricks. Diane Hendricks: Hendricks is the billionaire former head of the ABC Supply roofing company, which she took over from her husband Kenneth after he died in a construction site accident in 2. Reportedly worth $2. Wisconsin and a big Republican Party donor. She recently gave her state's embattled Republican governor, Scott Walker, $1. The Humphreys family: Ethelmae Humphreys is the chair of the board of Tamko Building Products, one of the country's largest independent roofing manufacturers. She also serves on the board of directors of the Cato Institute, a Koch- funded think tank. Her son David is Tamko's CEO. The two have doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates. That includes David's $2. Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, who came under fire recently for allegations that he choked a fellow justice. His wife, Frayda Levin, is a national director at the Koch brothers' advocacy group Americans for Prosperity and sits on the board of the Club for Growth. She also cofounded the Motion Picture Institute, which . FEC records show that she has given well over $1. The Marshall family: Elaine Marshall of Dallas is the widow of E. Pierce Marshall, a son of oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall who served on the board of Koch Industries before his death. Elaine was involved in a successful effort to prevent the late Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith, who married Howard when he was 8. Before Smith's death, she was investigated by the FBI but never prosecuted in a murder- for- hire plot against Pierce. In the end, Pierce inherited the bulk of his father's wealth because he and his father had previously helped Charles and David Koch thwart a takeover of Koch Industries; Howard's eldest son—also named Howard—sided against his father and was disinherited as a result. Meanwhile, Elaine's son, E. Pierce Marshall Jr., is senior vice president and general counsel at oil exploration company Mar. Op. Co. Another son, Preston Marshall of Houston, is the president of Mar. Op. Co. The Popes: Art Pope is a millionaire Republican booster from Raleigh, North Carolina, who inherited his retail fortune from a family business. According to this article, he’s . According to this October 2. New Yorker profile by Jane Mayer, who has also profiled the Koch brothers, Pope has dumped millions into sculpting the political landscape in North Carolina, a swing state—including giving money to outside groups that fund malicious attack ads. The Robertsons: Corbin Robertson is CEO and chairman of the board of Natural Resource Partners, a Houston- based fossil fuels company. He's also been involved with a number of other energy organizations and was listed as the richest US small- business owner in 2. CNNMoney. He and wife Barbara have donated to the Baylor College of Medicine and both Democratic and Republican politicians. Karen Wright: Wright is the founder and CEO of the Ariel Foundation, a private philanthropy group based in Mount Vernon, Ohio. She's also. CEO of the Ariel Corporation, a natural- gas compression company, and on the American Petroleum Institute's board of directors. She has donated more than $1. Republican causes, according to Open. Secrets. org. Tom Rastin: Rastin shares a Mount Vernon, Ohio, address with Karen Wright. He serves on the board of directors at the Ariel Foundation and is vice president of marketing and engineering at the Ariel Corporation. Last year, he gave $2,4. Democratic Louisiana House Speaker Hunt Downer, who switched to the Republican Party after endorsing the Bush- Cheney ticket in 2. The principals with the Services Group of America: SGA is a billion- dollar food services wholesaler; its CEO, Peter Smith of Scottsdale, Arizona, appears on the list of 2. Koch attendees. Smith took over as CEO last year after its former head, GOP heavyweight Thomas J. Stewart, died in a helicopter crash. According to FEC records, Smith has donated $1. Republican congressional candidates. SGA's political action committee donates heavily to Republicans. At the event, Charles Koch also read off names that did not appear on the 2. GOP donors for whom giving $1 million or more to the Kochs would not seem out of character. You'll find these names below. We chose not to offer any details on the handful of names for which we could find no association with Koch business interests or conservative political giving. He has donated at least $1. Republicans in recent years, including $5,0. Sarah Palin's PAC, according to FEC records. The company itself has given at least $1. Open. Secrets. org. The Hamms: Self- made magnate Harold Hamm of Oklahoma City is reportedly worth $8. The son of sharecroppers, Hamm soared up the corporate ladder from gas station attendant to CEO of . According to Open. Secrets. org, he's doled out more than $1. Republican. Stricken with diabetes, he and wife Sue Ann founded a center at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center to help combat the disease. The Haydens: Jerry and Marilyn Hayden of Barrington, Illinois, doled out $4. Republicans in 2. Before retirement, Jerry ran Peacock Engineering, a packaging company. As of September 2. United Republican Fund of Illinois. The Haydens recently donated $2. Bradley University. Virginia James: James is an investor from New Jersey. She has donated handsomely to right- wing causes, including a $7. Club for Growth in 2. This year, she donated $2. Wisconsin's Justice Prosser. The Menards: John Menard of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is the founder of Menards, the country's third- largest hardware company. He's worth a reported $5. Republican Party and federal candidates, mostly Republicans, according to FEC records. His company backed a recent anti- union program that was linked to the Kochs' Americans for Prosperity and supported by Gov. Scott Walker. John Moran: Hailing from Palm Springs, Florida, Moran is the former chairman of the Dyson- Kissner- Moran Corporation, an international holding company based in New York City. He also chaired the Republican National Finance Committee from 1. Moran has given more than $9. Republican causes since 1. Open. Secrets. org, and he bundled between $2. Mc. Cain's 2. 00. In 1. 99. 7, he warned that the religious right was putting his party's future . He is reportedly worth $4. Since 1. 98. 9, Schwab has donated more than $1. Republican, according to Open. Secrets. org. Part of that went to his company's lobbying arm, which has given away millions more. Paul Singer: While Singer is not on the list of Aspen participants, the New York Times noted that . Singer founded the $1. Elliott Management and recently issued an economic manifesto slamming the Federal Reserve as a . Jack, an evangelical Christian, has donated more than $1 million to Republicans, according to state and federal records. He heads the John Templeton Foundation, an organization whose critics—including prominent scientists—say it aims to apply scientific legitimacy to matters of faith. The foundation was started by Jack's late father, Sir John the mutual fund billionaire, and in 2. Be sure to Read Part 1 of our two- part series.
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