WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The youngest of the billionaire Koch brothers had a dream: to found a private high school where academically gifted students of all socioeconomic backgrounds would do hands-on projects and learn by solving problems. In interviews, several former employees said Mr. Parsons had created a “toxic” work environment. One senior won a $100,000 Siemens scholarship for inventing a water-purification method.Mr. Ross, a developer who's No. It’s not the first time a Bill Koch home has made the news: At his Palm Beach mansion, the billionaire finally broke bread in 2001 with his far richer and better known brothers Charles and David, whom he’d sued and publicly called crooks. Select this result to view William Thomas Koch's phone number, address, and more. Now, a decade after settling permanently, the lesser-known Koch brothers seem to have moved on: one to Monaco, and the other with his own Florida oil conglomerate.Despite assurances to the contrary, Koch PAC -- Koch Industries' political action committee -- has become increasingly partisan over the years when it comes to election donations.Exec accused of defrauding Koch's Oxbow Industries claims he was kidnapped. Perks at the high school include a physical therapist on staff, chef-prepared lunches, 16 assistant football coaches, an equestrian club and a flight simulator.Anne Reilly working with her biology class at Oxbridge Academy last week. (Getty Images) UPDATE (6:00 PM PST): Charles Koch has provided a statement which is now integrated into the story. That was one reason he did not name the school after himself.Upheaval Amid ‘Alarming’ Revelations at William Koch’s Florida SchoolWilliam I. Koch, who founded the Oxbridge Academy of the Palm Beaches in Florida.Students heading to class last week at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach. With a $2.1 billion fortune needed to make the cut, some famous names, including Michael Jordan and Anastasia Soare, were not quite wealthy enough for the list. billionaire Bill Koch. The debate team spent hundreds of thousands of dollars traveling to competitions nationwide, Mr. Koch said.“We are finding alarming things of how money was misspent,” Mr. Koch said at his company’s offices. Energy mogul and NFL's Houston Texans owner Robert McNair died in November at 81. But it does bother me.”His mother, Cheryl Taylor, also had a daughter in the school’s freshman class in the school’s inaugural year. Wine Detective is sniffing out new Koch said the investigators did not find any evidence of kickbacks to employees from vendors. mystery last winter involving And he chokes up just talking about the troubled students who have made a turnaround at Oxbridge, which his children attend and from which his son has just graduated.“My biggest failing is I’m too trusting of people,” Mr. Koch said.Oxbridge was created in less than a year on a 45-acre campus that once held a Jewish community center.“I don’t know if people appreciate how much happened here in five years,” said Bob Kaufmann, the chairman of the school’s executive committee, who has been given the task of reducing spending. The penthouse was sold to a [...]The 26 individuals who lost their spots on The Forbes 400.Manna From Heaven: How D.E. Now the All the president's neighbors: There are at least 21 billionaires within earshot of the winter White House, as well as a prince, a princess, a piano man, two shock jocks, three Trumps and the former residence of the most notorious fraudster in American history.Dancing Bear (Shawn O’Connor Photography) Dancing Bear Aspen announced today the record-breaking $16,000,000 sale of the penthouse residence located at its brand new Mountainside building. He was 79. They have also lived in West Palm Beach, FL and Asheville, NC. “Football began to outshine everything else.”The football team, the Thunderwolves, made it to the The problems at Oxbridge, where tuition is $31,500 a year, went beyond sports. The fisheries industry has a thing or two to say about it. Koch said he had not been able to verify any “super sexual harassment” beyond what he called “PG-13” comments like “God, that girl’s hot” or “She’s got a great behind.” But the investigation, he said, turned up information that led to the firing of Mr. Parsons and the forcing out of the athletic director and the coach.Mr. Bodnar, who had been on the admissions committee, said the committee’s recommendations were often overruled by the football coaches.He said that there were so many academically struggling athletes that tutors were overwhelmed, and that the players had to be put in classes separate from the rest of the student body.John Klemme, the academic dean who will take over as head of school, said that some of the struggling students “would have been written off” at other schools, but had found their way to a superior education because of their football prowess.“This is not to be a rich kids’ school,” Mr. Klemme said.Mr. An athlete who read at a third-grade level was given a full scholarship, the football team had its own locker room and the coach earned more than $200,000 a year, according to tax records and interviews with former employees.The former head of school, Robert C. Parsons, whose official title was president and chief executive, is a former chief financial officer at the United States Naval Academy. Reached on Sunday, he said, “I’m not interested,” and hung up again.After inquiries from The Post, Mr. Koch hired a team of accountants, lawyers and a retired F.B.I. Two-thousand Eiffel Tower-sized wind turbines could soon spring up along the East Coast. He said budget watchdogs would be hired to cut costs and pay closer attention to spending.“The attitude that was there at the school was that they had a rich guy backing it and they could do whatever they wanted,” he said.He also wants to figure out how to get others to donate to the school, he said. Eventually, he made about $600,000 a year at the school.But in interviews, former employees questioned Mr. Koch’s decision to hire Mr. Parsons in the first place, because he was suspended for five days after a 2009 Naval inspector general report accused him and his former boss of operating a “slush fund” to pay for tailgate parties.Mr. David H. Koch, the billionaire libertarian and part-time Palm Beach resident who devoted his riches to philanthropy and building a political movement, has died. He said that if any evidence of grade-changing emerged, the employees responsible would be fired.


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