Sex For Oil Scandal At Interior Department
Inspector General Reports Accuse Government Employees Of Rigging Contracts In Exchange For Sex And Gifts
CBS/ AP) Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The allegations of bad behavior involve 13 government employees in Denver and Washington, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Those accused are workers who sell U.S. mineral rights to oil companies. Such sales are one of the government's biggest sources of revenue besides taxes.
But the Inspector General for the Interior Department says they rigged contracts, and engaged in illegal moonlighting, drugs, sex and gift-taking from oil company representatives, according to three reports released Wednesday.
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Devaney said the former head of the Denver Royalty-in-Kind office, Gregory W. Smith, used illegal drugs and had sex with subordinates. The report said Smith also steered government contracts to a consulting business that was employing him part-time.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/10/national/main4436263.shtmlNo wonder the GOP wans to talk about Joe The Plumber instead of the shit that's been going on under their watch...I wonder If GOPer GAWD approved of what the folks at Bush's Interior Department was doing?