Interior Department officials, while handling billions of dollars in oil and gas royalty payments, engaged in illicit sex with industry employees and accepted meals, drinks, ski junkets and golf outings from major oil companies, internal investigators reported Wednesday. Full Story »
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McClatchy provides links to some of the results of the investigation that took two years, interviewed 233 witnesses and covered 470,000 pages of documents and emails. (http://www.doioig.gov/) for the Office of Inspector General to read 3 reports on the investigation. The findings are embarrassing and since employees may still be dismissed it would be difficult to get an opinion from the MMS. A follow up story on what other government departments work with energy companies and if they may be under investigation would be interesting.
