Deepwater Horizon tragedy: Oil platforms overseen by agency involved in meth-snorting-off-toaster-oven scandal
Fri Apr 30 16:15:00 2010 CST
By Jennifer Peebles
If you're wondering how a giant oil slick could be allowed to form in the Gulf Coast and lap at the Louisiana shoreline, here's a scary thought: The agency responsible for preventing something like this was too busy snorting crystal meth off toaster ovens.
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Don’t let the Denver datelines fool you. The sleaze-soaked federal Interior Department office that grabbed headlines this week is actually in Colorado, but there was plenty of impropriety going on in Houston by workers with Uncle Sam’s Minerals Management Service.
Sadly, our favorite bit of tawdriness in the scandal –- the one that involved a federal official snorting crystal meth off a toaster oven –- took place near the Mile High City, as best we can tell from reading the three special reports issued this week by the Interior Department’s inspector general. But the reports say officials with the federal Minerals Management Service were selling influence, cutting insider deals, getting freebies and meals and who-knows-what-else in the Bayou City.
Funny, that’s not what they were supposed to be doing. They were supposed to be collecting money from Big Oil on behalf of the taxpayers.
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much more at link:
http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2010/04/deepwater-horizon-tragedy-oil-platforms-overseen-by-agency/1272654950.column