| Imprisoned climate activist Tim DeChristopher has been placed into confined quarters, because "an unidentified congressman had called from Washington DC, complaining of an email that Tim had sent," according to Peaceful Uprising. DeChristopher was prosecuted by the Obama administration and sentenced to two years in federal prison for disrupting a last-minute Bush oil lease auction in Utah that was found to be improper and was withdrawn. Last month, the Department of Justice fined two companies $550,000 for conspiring on the bidding for a similar oil and gas auction. There were no criminal prosecutions of this federal felony. One of the companies involved, Oxbow Corporation, is owned by top Mitt Romney contributor William Koch, brother to David and Charles Koch of Koch Industries |
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