Koch brothers: squabbling and blackmailing

Bill Koch told Fortune that Charles once resorted to a homosexual blackmail attempt to force Frederick to sell his shares in their family company, a charge Charles has denied. “Charles’s ‘homosexual blackmail’ to get control of my shares did not succeed for the simple reason that I am not homosexual,” Frederick says.

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     In his book, Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, Dan Schulman says that unnamed Koch brothers' acquaintances in Wichita evidently do not buy this declaration.