Zinke Scandal..corruption..stinks

[HipChick]

Fish rots from head....etc...

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/19/ryan-zinke-halliburton-park-whitefish-montana-647731

The involvement of the interior secretary’s family in a multimillion-dollar project funded by the chairman of an energy-services giant — revealed here for the first time — is rife with conflicts of interest, ethics experts say, especially since Zinke’s job as interior secretary makes him the custodian of more than 500 million acres of public land and head of a department that sets technical and safety standards for pipelines and drilling.

Halliburton is the largest American oil-services company, drilling wells and building rigs. It stands to benefit from any new oil and gas exploration on public land or offshore — something the Trump administration has promised to promote — and the company has frequent dealings with the Interior Department in its regulatory capacity.

For example, federal disclosures show that Halliburton’s in-house lobbyist met repeatedly with Interior officials to discuss the department’s policies on hydraulic fracturing, the oil extraction procedure that some studies have linked to groundwater contamination and earthquakes. Under Zinke, the department last year rescinded Obama-era rules that restricted fracking on federal land, a decision that directly benefited Halliburton, one of the world’s leading fracking companies.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. In any other administration Zinke would have been sacked long ago,

assuming he'd even been hired in the first place. But for Trump, a corrupt attitude isn't a bug, it's a feature. It's how he thinks: How can I scam something, and how much, from whatever situation I'm in? And he hires people who think just the same way because to him they're just smart operators. Ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics.

[Garrett78]

2. Long before he became a scandal-plagued cabinet member, I remember him claiming...

...that 80% of the terrorists in a particular central African conflict are children. I swear, there are very few Republicans who aren't batshit insane. And corrupt as hell.

[MontanaMama]

3. The Politico article is an informative read.

Zinke and his wife are as dirty as they come. K&R.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. My guess is

the kicker has something to do with the Flat Head Lake Area. As well as the failed Uranium Mining near Bears Ears.

[MrScorpio]

4. Trump hired the best...

Crooks.

[Achilleaze]

6. republican grifters are pissing on America

lock them up