Click and Hear Kyle’s Words for Yourself. Full Four-Hour Verifiably Unedited and Unaltered, Authenticated Conversation. Unzip the archived file. Sort by date and time. The call was dropped twice and Kyle called back. The conversation begins with the .m4a file dated March 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM. The adjacent JSON files contain metadata that will be required should you wish to engage Cube Apps to authenticate the recordings.
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This page contains the unaltered evidence of the fraudulent transfer of Fiber Network Solutions (FNSI) to Cogent Communications.
No speculation. No interpretation. Just the truth.
Governing Law
Texas is a One-Party Consent State. Recording a telephone conversation without the other party’s consent is legal if at least one participant is aware of and consents to the recording.
Kyle Bacon initiated the call to Dave Koch, who was in Texas, where recording is legal.
This website contains factual statements, legally obtained recordings, and supporting documentation.
All statements are verifiably true.
Call Record Details
Call 1: March 13, 2024 – 10:30 PM Central Time (Call initiated by Kyle Bacon.)
Call 2: March 14, 2024 – 12:31 AM Central Time (Kyle redialed after the call dropped.)
Call 3: March 14, 2024 – 1:06 AM Central Time (Kyle redialed again after the call dropped.)
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For additional transparency, the following supporting documents are included:
Legal Disclaimer and Recording Notice
Confirming the incoming calls from Kyle Bacon to Dave Koch & Chris Myers.
Multiple reconnections after call drops, verifying Kyle’s active participation.
T-Mobile Telephone Records
This document was produced by McDonald Investments, an independent New York-based investment firm, ensuring its accuracy and credibility.
It confirms the equity positions of all shareholders.Individual Shareholders & number of shares held, including 1.2 million shares held by David Koch.
Balance Sheet showing $841,000 in shareholder equity.
$840,000 from the Bacon family.
Remaining amount from the Your Connection merger.
McDonald Investments Memorandum
(Independent Third-Party Report)
Kyle admits he did not know about the things Dave knew because of his lack of experience. He also states, "Dave, I love you. Tell Chris I love him too." - "Dave I don't blame you for anything." - "You got sick." - "You were on your deathbed."
The cited audio clips contain the written quotes on this website. However, the audio clips provided are longer than the single quotes and contain the surrounding conversation to avoid any claim that any of the quotes were taken out of context. The full context is included. Some of the clips have been enhanced strictly to increase the volume. There has been no alteration to the content, which can be authenicated from the original recordings.
Kyle Bacon in His Own Words
This call occurred only months after a payment silenced a long-time associate.
Bacon initiated contact to assess whether he retained influence over me.
The conversation reflects calculated control and manipulation, not reconciliation. It is consistent with deliberate psychological conditioning.
The call began as reconnaissance. As it progressed, Bacon made statements suggesting he had intentionally made himself difficult to locate.
Whether the 21-year betrayal of a mentor and father figure created a psychological need to confess is a question left to the record.
Today, this call stands as evidence.
Bacon's call was Reconnaissance, Not Reunion
Before you download the full Conversation
This brochure—published in 2001—captures the scale, integrity, and operational excellence of FNSI at its peak. This brochure was recently discovered on the Internet wayback archive.
Under Koch's leadership, FNSI had a 100% transit-free national backbone. FNSI had collocation centers across the Midwest. FNSI had unqualified (clean) audits from KPMG, year after year.
And then it was stolen.
It was stolen by men and women Dave Koch once trusted—co-conspirators who saw Koch's medical incapacitation as their opportunity.
They took what I built, erased my name, and handed it to Cogent Communications in a transaction now under federal investigation for fraud, obstruction, and racketeering.
This is what Dave Koch built over eight years, then Kyle Bacon & Dave Schaeffer took while Koch was medically incapacitated.
Fiber Network Solutions, Inc. was not a startup. It was a nationally ranked, carrier-grade Tier One Internet provider with audited financials, coast-to-coast infrastructure, and a client base that trusted us with mission-critical data.
The voice recordings provided on this site are clips taken from the unaltered, original recordings from a phone call initiated by Kyle Bacon to Dave Koch on March 13, 2024. These recordings were legally obtained under Texas law and are presented as direct evidence of statements made by Kyle Bacon in his own words. Individual clips were enhanced to remove noise and increase volume. No changes were made to the content.
Download this 2001 brochure directly from web.archive.org here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040622112204/http://www.fnsi.net/images/FNSIBrochure.pdf
Kyle Bacon (Left) The aspiring young protégé of Dave Koch (Right) FNSI’s President, CEO and Chairman, the leadership that built FNSI.
Kyle Bacon, fresh out of school in 1995, was taken under David Koch’s wing. Under Koch’s leadership, the two built the pioneering data center model that would later be stolen by Bacon, Dave Schaeffer, and others—becoming the very foundation upon which Cogent Communications was built.
Kyle Bacon exploited his mentor and business partner, David Koch—the co-founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of Fiber Network Solutions, Inc.—during a period when Koch was incapacitated by a life-threatening medical crisis. In Koch’s absence, Bacon orchestrated the fraudulent acquisition of FNSI by Cogent Communications and later joined Cogent as its first Chief Information Officer (CIO). In the recorded conversation below, Bacon openly admits that he took FNSI’s pioneering data center model and deployed it at Cogent—establishing the very infrastructure upon which Cogent was built.
This call, which took place on March 13, 2024, was the first time Kyle Bacon had contacted Dave Koch in 21 years. The timing was significant: it came just months after an unlawful payoff had allegedly been made to Craig and Inga Housley in exchange for their silence regarding the 2003 FNSI acquisition fraud.
Koch, then in the early stages of uncovering the deception, had not yet made his findings public. The evidence strongly suggests this was a reconnaissance call—Bacon’s attempt to assess whether Koch had returned to the same vulnerable and manipulated state that had allowed others to erase his ownership and suppress the truth for two decades.
Bacon’s concluding remark—“This has been an absolutely fantastic call”—is best understood in that context. He believed, wrongly, that Koch remained unaware of the fraud and posed no threat to those who had buried it.
"This has been an absolutely fantastic conversation..." - Kyle Bacon
"Cogent didn't have a product to sell for these data centers that they bought from PSI." — Kyle Bacon "I took our model. I took our data center model, from FNSI... from FiberNet, then I packaged it up, made a nice presentation for the sales team so they could all understand it, and I said, go sell the shit out of this, because no one else is doing it." — Kyle Bacon "That's what put me on Dave Schaffer's and Cogent's RADAR. Because I took his turd and turned it to gold. I didn't build anything new. I just took what we had at Fibernet..." — Kyle Bacon
I appreciate, no, I appreciate that you knew that, that gave me my time that allowed me to resolve all the conflicts that I just had, that I dealt with, and this has been an absolutely fantastic conversation. — Kyle Bacon
The following independent audit reports issued by KPMG LLP (Columbus, Ohio) confirm that Fiber Network Solutions, Inc. maintained audited financial statements and GAAP-compliant operations in the years immediately preceding the 2003 transaction.
Fiber Network Solutions' Audited Financial Statements
Document Notice — KPMG Independent Auditors’ Reports (1998–2000)
The KPMG documents consist of Independent Auditors’ Report pages issued by KPMG LLP (Columbus, Ohio) for Fiber Network Solutions, Inc. (FNSI) covering fiscal years 1998 through 2000.
These materials are presented as they have been located and preserved. They consist of the auditor opinion pages only and do not include the full audited financial statements, notes, or supporting schedules that would have accompanied the original audit reports.
Accordingly:
• These documents confirm the existence of independent external audits and the auditor’s opinion as issued by KPMG LLP.
• They are not presented as complete audit files or full financial statements.
• No representation is made as to the completeness of the underlying audit record.
• There may have been additional audits conducted in other periods that are not included here.
These documents are provided as primary source materials for review in conjunction with other contemporaneous records available on this site.
Who Is Dave Koch? Click Here to learn about Dave and his work.
Kyle Bacon, Chief Information Officer of Cogent Communications (former); Vice President & COO of FNSI (former)
Kyle Bacon, Chief Information Officer of Cogent Communications (former); Vice President & COO of FNSI (former)
The Evidence
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