Felicia was hired as an Executive Protection Specialist for the Koch family via Matador Security Company NY LLC (the company has only been around since 2016). Matador Security had a job description that they posted online and the detailed requirements can be found here. As an executive protection specialist Felicia earned $155,000 per year of generally three weeks on and two weeks off. Felicia and her attorney claim that she on call 24/7 during the time that she worked. When was Felicia was brought on she claims she was told by another female executive protection specialist that Julia Koch goes out to restaurants to meet Charles Manger however the relationship can't be discussed.
The most interesting part of the lawsuit (the tracking of the lawsuit can be found here) is the life of Mary Julia Koch. Mary Julia Koch is the only daughter of David and Julia Koch. In her younger life Mary Julia was a ballet dancer for the School of American Ballet and was involved with the ballet for almost seven years. Mary Julia went to the Spence School from roughly kindergarten through senior year of high school. She recently graduated from Harvard in 2023 as a history major and was the editor in chief of the Harvard Independent (Harvard student newspaper) for a number of years. In addition this she graduated with a 4.0 GPA and was also named a John Harvard Scholar (top 5% of her class). Currently she works as a journalist for The New York Sun as a freelance National Correspondent. Actually this is somewhat interesting that she is a journalist as her cousin Elizabeth Koch is a publisher, her uncle Charles Koch has published four books, and her great grandfather Harry Koch founded the Quanah Tribune-Chief.
The lawsuit outlines texts that occurred between Mary Koch, Julia Koch, and Felicia. On June 1, 2019 Julia Koch was concerned about her daughter explaining to Felicia that "Mary is depressed" and a few weeks later "Can you check on Mary Julia she is lonely". The timeline of this makes sense given that her father (David Koch) passed away in August 23, 2019. David was not in good shape for some time and stepped down from Koch Industries back in June 2018. In the fall of 2019, Felicia alleged that while Mary Julia attended Harvard Felicia was in charge of menial-non security tasks such as ordering and purchasing custom smoothies for Mary, doing laundry, purchase tampons, and printing out work assignments and homework. The legal team for Julia and Mary Koch deny this claim however there may be some truth having to perform menial tasks as actual texts show Felicia would be asked to purchase a sun shirt for Mary Julia (this request was from Julia Koch) and texts would show Mary Julia requesting a smoothie-her actual text was "Hi could you please have a smoothie downstairs in 20 mins". It seems as if the Koch family was using the security specialists as someone who would also run errands and menial tasks when their main job should be to protect the family. You would think for the kind of money the Koch family has they could separately pay someone as a personal assistant and not rely on security for this.
In October 2019 things seemed to get worse at Mary Julia was at China King (it has since closed) and was with some friends and it is alleged that one of her friends was black out drunk and the issue was Mary Julia and all her friends were under aged and Mary Julia's friend ended up going to the hospital as a result. Roughly a week later after this incident Mary Julia went to Austin and Julia Koch was worried her daughter was using a fake ID and Mary Julia believed a fake ID in Texas was a felony (apparently it can range from a Class A misdemeanor all the way to a felony). While Mary Julia was in Texas her mother requested Felicia take Mary out for "nice shopping in Highland Park Village" and that Mary "needs to see the nice side of Dallas and nap tomorrow on the plane". Highland Park Village is one of the most upscale cities in the entire country.
In November 2019 Mary wanted to rent a party bus to take her and her friends from Cambridge to New Haven Connecticut for the Harvard vs. Yale college football game that was going to take place the next weekend. Mary Julia mentioned "We want to drink on the bus so do you think we should be discreet? None of us are 21 but we can show a fake ID if need to prove our age in order to drink".
By mid December 2019 (the Harvard calendar from 2019 shows finals were almost over) Mary Julia was out until almost 3 A.M. in the morning partying and drinking and at around 3 A.M. Felicia texted Julia saying that she was home for the night. About a week later Mary Julia was out until 1:30 A.M. partying and her mother requested she come home. However Mary Julia rebuffed her mother and then finally at 2:45 A.M. Mary Julia said she was leaving in an Uber.
In January 2020 Mary Julia wanted to go to a nightclub called Camelot (based on West Palm Beach Florida) however her mother didn't want her go go and then Julia Koch asked Felicia if Mary Julia had mentioned anything about going to a nightclub. By February 2020 Mary was again partying and drinking into the late hours and one morning asked Felicia to make her coffee (without foam).
It is hard to know if Mary Julia was partying and going out quite a bit because of just being a college age student (binge drinking for sure) or if this was fueled by her father just recently have passed. Death can do strange things to people were they act out and become a person they never were before.
Perhaps partying is somewhat of an inherited trait within the Koch family. David Koch while at MIT was in the Beta Theta Pi and lived in the fraternity house. According to Sons of Wichita, a friend of David Koch's at MIT would say "Dave was always up for a party" and the fraternity would have formal dinners with their dates and then party into the night (however it was mild by modern standards). David would reflect on his days at MIT for "Great friends, wild parties, athletic triumphs, academic successes, and actually learning something useful. The partying continued for David Koch later in life as well. His brother Charles Koch on the other hand was usually the first person to get to the party and the first one to leave however David was more like his mother Mary Koch who would want to stay the whole night. David for New Year's Eve 1993 invited 800 people at his Aspen home (it was voted as one of the best parties in the country to crash). David would also throw major parties at his 15,000 square foot seven bedroom, nine-bathroom Southampton beach home. Friends would say that David would party harder than anyone they knew. David's parties went so late that he ended up serving guests both dinner and breakfast and offering guests six different types of champagne. These parties would require about 40 security guards to keep the riff raft out. Some of these parties had scantily clad women as can be seen here, David is here with a dancer, and here is David making out with his wife Julia. The 7 bedroom, 8000 square foot Aspen, Colorado home that was known for the legendary parties was sold in July 2020 for $23 million.
There are many allegations made against Julia Koch and Mary Julia Koch. It is somewhat hard to sort out given Felicia Racine by her own admission is not a credible person. However, court documents show both sides of the story in terms of what happened. Felicia for example claims that Julia Koch texted Felicia not to allow Mary Julia's boyfriend (Max) to spent the night in Mary's hotel room (at the Charles Hotel (some irony since her uncle is named Charles too) with Max spending the night with Mary in Mary's bed and Felicia claims she was forced to stay in the same suite. Also there was a allegation that David Jr. didn't have great grades in high school so Julia had to donate $1 million to Duke for a new scoreboard for the baseball team and have David Jr. appointed to a newly created team manager to get him into Duke as a student. David Jr. graduated from Duke University in 2021 with a degree in political science and government and currently works for Madison Square Garden as a a membership experience executive. I highly doubt these claims of giving Duke money to get David Jr. in are true for multiple reasons. The first is a couple of years ago there was a major investigation into parents doing this back in 2019 and known as the Varsity Blues Scandal. If David Koch attended Duke from 2017 to 2021 it seems odd that this wouldn't be a prime target (if the alleged allegations really occurred. Also if this really did occur I am sure someone would talk (as people can be induced to talk to the media).
There is a contrast from the children of David Koch and Charles Koch. Charles Koch has two children Chase Koch and Elizabeth Koch. Chase works as an executive at Koch Industries and also is on the board of directors. Elizabeth Koch runs different wellness non profit organizations. Both children appear to be productive people. However, the difference is how Charles Koch raised his children. Although Charles was a billionaire in the mid 1990's he would still eat dinner every night with his family and without the help of any servants. Also during dinner every night Charles Koch would ask his children how an example of how they exemplified the school's principles of love, faith, honor, or courage. Chase Koch (son of Charles Koch) during his teenage years old was sent to a feedlot in Syracuse, Kansas and Chase would work 80 hours a week (7 days a week) doing manual labor. Charles and David Koch themselves did manual labor growing up. Charles started working at the age of 6 on the family and David Koch told Avenue Magazine in 2014 he would working from 7:30 A.M. until 5:30 P.M. and then one summer David worked 10 hours a day, seven days a week, doing manual labor jobs and the temperature got to 115 degrees. His first weeks earnings were used to buy a plane ticket back home too.
Compare all this to David Koch who moved out of his 1040 Fifth Avenue apartment even though it was 5,300 square feet with 5 bedrooms. David commented that it wasn't large enough for himself, his family, Julia's mother, and 3 nannies. The family moved in 2004 moved into a 9,000 square foot, 18 room duplex in order to accommodate the growing family. Also David when he worked at Koch Industries would get into his New York office around 9 A.M. and end up getting home by 7 P.M. When he got home the family had a private chef prepare dinner for the family.
My own view following the Koch family for over a decade is that David's children feel a sense of entitlement. This may stem from the fact that although David wanted the best for his children in terms of sending them to the best schools and giving them the best education. However, given David had over the top parties, hired help from the time the children were very young (3 nannies seems like quite a bit when you have three children), and a private chef may perhaps have spoiled the children when they were younger. It is hard to know what would have happened if David's children ended up living with Uncle Charles Koch. Charles would have his children listen to economics tapes on Sunday evening after dinner.
While many of the allegations made by Felicia Racine are exaggerated or just bold face lies there is some truth via the actual text messages sent between Felicia, Mary Julia Koch, and Julia Koch. The text messages show a daughter who is a partying college student (who ended up with a 4.0 GPA) focused on a fake ID and a worried mother who is concern about her daughter being a partier, getting in trouble, and also worried about her daughter's mental health. Again it is hard to know if Mary Julia's behavior occurred as a result of her father passing or if she had that same lifestyle beforehand. The lifestyle that Mary Julia Koch is accustomed to is a life of luxury, people waiting on her, and having access to nearly anything she would like. In this post I estimated that Koch Industries pays out around $800 million per year in dividends to Julia Koch and her family. Having said this Mary Julia is a fantastic writer and her writing is clear, lucid, and entertaining and her articles from the Harvard Independent can be found here. It is interesting to see how she and her brothers David Jr, and John Mark develop over the next couple of decades. The big question is will any of David's children join Koch Industries. Julia Koch is already on the board of directors of Koch Industries so it would be interesting if any of the children get added to this over time.
