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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-11-08 08:54 PM
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1. Sex 'n drugs 'n minerals management (Seattle PI blogs)
... And amid all the wink-wink-nudge-nudge, don't fail to notice that the hanky-panky after hours was just window dressing on what was going on right in the MMS offices in Denver ... One bureaucrat has already pleaded guilty, but federal prosecutors declined to go after two higher-ranking officials.

This unit was set up a few years ago to simplify life for the oil companies. Its employees would take delivery of oil in payment of oil companies' royatly payments for drilling on federal offshore reserves. Apparently the MMS employees thought they were above federal ethics rules because they were moving in the world of oil-industry wheeler-dealers, and supervisors remained "calculatedly ignorant" of rules forbidding awarding of government contracts to recently retired friends from within the agency, Devaney reported ...

Devaney's office's work churned up more than 470,000 pages of investigative documents ... But if you can't find time to read all that, I do recommend his four-page letter transmitting the findings to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, which notes that some officials: escaped potential administrative action by departing from federal service, with the usual celebratory send-offs that allegedly highlighted the impeccable service these individuals had given to the Federal Government. Our reports belie this notion ...

This one's a big enough stinker that even U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Big Oil, is saying they done bad ...

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/environment/archives/148456.asp


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