Big Oil Scandal, Sex Liasons, W/Dept of Interior ... On TV Coming Soon. Duh I'm in Main Forums General Discussion.
Geez ...
Something is about to happen.
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QUOTE (USA1 @ Sep 10 2008, 03:11 PM) 
Big Oil Scandal, Sex Liasons, W/Dept of Interior ... On TV Coming Soon. Duh I'm in Main Forums General Discussion.
Geez ...
Something is about to happen.
Geez ...
Something is about to happen.
where?
Big Ed touched on that before signing off, he said they were already in bed together!!! We knew that!!!
No something about "real sex liasons for Dept of Interior & Big Oil employees"
10 Employees involved in Big Oil Sex, Contracts, Etc, Etc.
Getting it now? See it?
10 Employees involved in Big Oil Sex, Contracts, Etc, Etc.
Getting it now? See it?
I don't see anything about it on their website. But Joe is about to speak at a rally in NH.
Of course, duh, it's the interior department. Long before there was a defense department to subvert we had corrupt Interior Department secretaries. Teapot Dome, anyone?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washingt...ml?ref=business
Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept.
September 10, 2008 WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.
In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department's inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government's largest sources of revenue other than taxes.
"A culture of ethical failure" besets the agency, Mr. Devaney wrote in a cover memo.
The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration's watch.
The highest-ranking official criticized in the reports was Lucy Q. Denett, the former associate director of minerals revenue management, who retired earlier this year as the inquiry was progressing.
The investigations are the latest installment in a series of scathing probes of the troubled program's management and competence in recent years. While previous reports have focused on problems the agency has had in collecting millions of dollars owed to the Treasury, the new set of reports raises questions about the integrity and behavior of the agency's officials.
In one of the new reports, investigators conclude that a key supervisor at the agency's minerals revenue management office worked together with two aides to steer a lucrative consulting contract to one of the aides after he retired, violating competitive procurement rules.
Two other reports focus on "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" and unethical behavior in the service's royalty-in-kind program. That part of the agency collects about $4 billion a year in the form of oil and gas rather than cash royalties.
Modeled on a private-sector energy company, the decade-old royalty-in-kind program transports, processes and resells the oil and gas on the open market. But while its officials interact with energy company executives, they are subject to government ethics rules, such as restrictions on taking gifts from sources with whom they conduct official business.
One of the reports says that the officials viewed themselves as exempt from those limits, indulging themselves in the expense-account-fueled world of oil and gas executives.
In addition, the report alleges that eight royalty-program officials accepted gifts from energy companies whose value exceeded limits set by ethics rules — including golf, ski and paintball outings; meals and drinks; and tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.
The investigation also concluded that several of the officials "frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives."
The investigation separately found that the program's manager mixed official and personal business, and took money from a technical services firm in exchange for urging oil companies to hire the firm. In sometimes lurid detail, the report accuses him of having intimate relations with two subordinates, one of whom regularly sold him cocaine.
The culture of the organization "appeared to be devoid of both the ethical standards and internal controls sufficient to protect the integrity of this vital revenue-producing program," one report said.
A spokeswoman for the Interior Department secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, referred inquiries to the Minerals Management Service. The service's director, Randall Luthi, released a preliminary statement on Wednesday morning saying he had not yet seen the reports but had scheduled a mid-afternoon conference call with reporters.
"I will tell you that we requested this investigation in 2006 after an employee raised allegations of ethical lapses," Mr. Luthi's early statement said. "I look forward to having the opportunity to review the Inspector General's findings so we can take the appropriate actions."
A spokesman for Mr. Devaney declined to comment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washingt...ml?ref=business
Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept.
September 10, 2008 WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.
In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department's inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government's largest sources of revenue other than taxes.
"A culture of ethical failure" besets the agency, Mr. Devaney wrote in a cover memo.
The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration's watch.
The highest-ranking official criticized in the reports was Lucy Q. Denett, the former associate director of minerals revenue management, who retired earlier this year as the inquiry was progressing.
The investigations are the latest installment in a series of scathing probes of the troubled program's management and competence in recent years. While previous reports have focused on problems the agency has had in collecting millions of dollars owed to the Treasury, the new set of reports raises questions about the integrity and behavior of the agency's officials.
In one of the new reports, investigators conclude that a key supervisor at the agency's minerals revenue management office worked together with two aides to steer a lucrative consulting contract to one of the aides after he retired, violating competitive procurement rules.
Two other reports focus on "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" and unethical behavior in the service's royalty-in-kind program. That part of the agency collects about $4 billion a year in the form of oil and gas rather than cash royalties.
Modeled on a private-sector energy company, the decade-old royalty-in-kind program transports, processes and resells the oil and gas on the open market. But while its officials interact with energy company executives, they are subject to government ethics rules, such as restrictions on taking gifts from sources with whom they conduct official business.
One of the reports says that the officials viewed themselves as exempt from those limits, indulging themselves in the expense-account-fueled world of oil and gas executives.
In addition, the report alleges that eight royalty-program officials accepted gifts from energy companies whose value exceeded limits set by ethics rules — including golf, ski and paintball outings; meals and drinks; and tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.
The investigation also concluded that several of the officials "frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives."
The investigation separately found that the program's manager mixed official and personal business, and took money from a technical services firm in exchange for urging oil companies to hire the firm. In sometimes lurid detail, the report accuses him of having intimate relations with two subordinates, one of whom regularly sold him cocaine.
The culture of the organization "appeared to be devoid of both the ethical standards and internal controls sufficient to protect the integrity of this vital revenue-producing program," one report said.
A spokeswoman for the Interior Department secretary, Dirk Kempthorne, referred inquiries to the Minerals Management Service. The service's director, Randall Luthi, released a preliminary statement on Wednesday morning saying he had not yet seen the reports but had scheduled a mid-afternoon conference call with reporters.
"I will tell you that we requested this investigation in 2006 after an employee raised allegations of ethical lapses," Mr. Luthi's early statement said. "I look forward to having the opportunity to review the Inspector General's findings so we can take the appropriate actions."
A spokesman for Mr. Devaney declined to comment.
it's on now
Interior Dept. scandal: Sex, drugs, energy deals probed at Denver office
Denver Post staff and wire reports
Article Last Updated: 09/10/2008 01:11:49 PM MDT
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10428441
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WASHINGTON — Federal investigators say government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies, and received improper gifts.
The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in Denver and Washington. Alleged improprieties include rigging contracts, working part-time as private oil consultants and having sexual relationships with — and accepting golf, ski trips and dinners from — oil company employees, according to three reports released Wednesday by the Interior Department's Inspector General.
The Inspector General also claims the former head of the Denver Minerals Management Service, or MMS, office — which markets oil to energy companies — was having sex and using illegal drugs with subordinates.
Last month, the Denver Post reported on the pending release of the Inspector General's report, saying it was expected to help explain breakdowns in accountability in government energy deals and other questionable activities discovered by the office's investigators and whistle-blowers in recent years.
During the past year, in September and again in May, inspector general reports have portrayed MMS as a nest of conflict, lapsed controls and potential criminal conduct. Last year, the division collected $11 billion from fees charged to oil, gas and mining companies for extracting offshore minerals in addition to production on federal and Indian lands.
MMS officials have allowed certain oil companies to skirt bidding procedures, modify sales contracts and avoid paying interest on royalties owed to the government, according to documents.
After four Interior auditors working for the Denver office raised alarms in whistle-blower suits - filed during the past four years - about what they considered fraudulent activities by oil corporations, all but one were reassigned or saw their jobs eliminated.
At the center of recent scrutiny is MMS's royalty-in-kind program.
The oil-and-gas lobby long pushed for such a system before it was implemented in 2004 under then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton.
The program, known as RIK, allows energy companies to pay the government a share of the actual oil product for the right to drill, instead of cash, avoiding accounting rules.
Such sales are held to fill the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve or to make oil available on the open market.
While many oil-industry experts view the program as potentially simpler than paying the government cash, Interior managers have allowed energy companies to twist rules at transaction levels generally unseen by the public, investigators say.
Oil corporations have frequently won changes to sales contracts and been allowed to submit bids after deadlines, tilting deals to their financial favor, without explanation and with little or no scrutiny of government lawyers, examiners have found.
Such practices, the inspector general concluded, lead to potential favoritism for certain energy companies, still unnamed, as well as taxpayer losses. An examination this year of 718 bid packages turned up changes to 118 that appeared to inappropriately benefit corporations by $4.4 million - at the expense of the government.
Hints of unethical and potentially illegal activity were threaded through the May and September reports. "RIK staff had
inappropriate relationships with industry executives RIK personnel still meet," one report said. "Potential criminal conduct of managers" needs to be explored, according to the other report.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
Article Last Updated: 09/10/2008 01:11:49 PM MDT
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10428441
Related Articles
Aug 24:
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators say government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies, and received improper gifts.
The alleged transgressions involve 13 Interior Department employees in Denver and Washington. Alleged improprieties include rigging contracts, working part-time as private oil consultants and having sexual relationships with — and accepting golf, ski trips and dinners from — oil company employees, according to three reports released Wednesday by the Interior Department's Inspector General.
The Inspector General also claims the former head of the Denver Minerals Management Service, or MMS, office — which markets oil to energy companies — was having sex and using illegal drugs with subordinates.
Last month, the Denver Post reported on the pending release of the Inspector General's report, saying it was expected to help explain breakdowns in accountability in government energy deals and other questionable activities discovered by the office's investigators and whistle-blowers in recent years.
During the past year, in September and again in May, inspector general reports have portrayed MMS as a nest of conflict, lapsed controls and potential criminal conduct. Last year, the division collected $11 billion from fees charged to oil, gas and mining companies for extracting offshore minerals in addition to production on federal and Indian lands.
MMS officials have allowed certain oil companies to skirt bidding procedures, modify sales contracts and avoid paying interest on royalties owed to the government, according to documents.
After four Interior auditors working for the Denver office raised alarms in whistle-blower suits - filed during the past four years - about what they considered fraudulent activities by oil corporations, all but one were reassigned or saw their jobs eliminated.
At the center of recent scrutiny is MMS's royalty-in-kind program.
The oil-and-gas lobby long pushed for such a system before it was implemented in 2004 under then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton.
The program, known as RIK, allows energy companies to pay the government a share of the actual oil product for the right to drill, instead of cash, avoiding accounting rules.
Such sales are held to fill the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve or to make oil available on the open market.
While many oil-industry experts view the program as potentially simpler than paying the government cash, Interior managers have allowed energy companies to twist rules at transaction levels generally unseen by the public, investigators say.
Oil corporations have frequently won changes to sales contracts and been allowed to submit bids after deadlines, tilting deals to their financial favor, without explanation and with little or no scrutiny of government lawyers, examiners have found.
Such practices, the inspector general concluded, lead to potential favoritism for certain energy companies, still unnamed, as well as taxpayer losses. An examination this year of 718 bid packages turned up changes to 118 that appeared to inappropriately benefit corporations by $4.4 million - at the expense of the government.
Hints of unethical and potentially illegal activity were threaded through the May and September reports. "RIK staff had
inappropriate relationships with industry executives RIK personnel still meet," one report said. "Potential criminal conduct of managers" needs to be explored, according to the other report.
I'm officially taking bets on how they blame this on Obama...
I want to know how Cheney was Related and When Dick Boy Visited Them?
Illicit sex? Must be a a boatload of republicans.
Democrats just have sex.
Democrats just have sex.
QUOTE (egghead @ Sep 10 2008, 03:35 PM)
Democrats just have sex...
...good sex
This is too funny. Let's see, the oil companies were bribing repigs with sex? I wonder how much of it consisted of sex with a lobbiest's dog? Or with a married woman working as a secretary when the big wigs walked in and said, hey, let me screw her and we got a deal. They are a scourge, and need to cauterized. It's the only way. But like Big Ed said, this is news?
QUOTE (gutterballz @ Sep 10 2008, 03:31 PM)
it's on now
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/news/econo...sion=2008091015
QUOTE (TapDuncan @ Sep 10 2008, 03:41 PM)
This is too funny. Let's see, the oil companies were bribing repigs with sex? I wonder how much of it consisted of sex with a lobbiest's dog? Or with a married woman working as a secretary when the big wigs walked in and said, hey, let me screw her and we got a deal. They are a scourge, and need to cauterized. It's the only way. But like Big Ed said, this is news?
i wonder if this is what larry flint held over a lot of repugs.......
The story has made it to the website, now. http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/10/news/econo...sion=2008091015
QUOTE (rememberearth @ Sep 10 2008, 03:44 PM)
i wonder if this is what larry flint held over a lot of repugs.......
Larry is going to take his List and Publish it.
I'm hoping November Issue (Out in October) !!!
QUOTE (USA1 @ Sep 10 2008, 04:04 PM)
Larry is going to take his List and Publish it.
I'm hoping November Issue (Out in October) !!!
I'm hoping November Issue (Out in October) !!!
if he REALLY wants to see the rep-oaches scramble i say october.
there's the surprise eh!
QUOTE
MMS officials have allowed certain oil companies to skirt bidding procedures, modify sales contracts and avoid paying interest on royalties owed to the government, according to documents.
No wonder the Oil Co's are making Huge Profits ... They're screwing the USA !!!
Could only happen under a Repiggy's Watch Lipstick or No Lipstick.
Part of Cheney's Secret Energy Plan?
QUOTE (rememberearth @ Sep 10 2008, 01:07 PM)
if he REALLY wants to see the rep-oaches scramble i say october.
there's the surprise eh!
there's the surprise eh!
Sweet. Very sweet.
WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.
In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government’s largest sources of revenue other than taxes.
“A culture of ethical failure” besets the agency, Mr. Devaney wrote in a cover memo.
The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration’s watch.
The highest-ranking official criticized in the reports was Lucy Q. Denett, the former associate director of minerals revenue management, who retired earlier this year as the inquiry was progressing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washingt...royalty.html?em
In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government’s largest sources of revenue other than taxes.
“A culture of ethical failure” besets the agency, Mr. Devaney wrote in a cover memo.
The reports portray a dysfunctional organization that has been riddled with conflicts of interest, unprofessional behavior and a free-for-all atmosphere for much of the Bush administration’s watch.
The highest-ranking official criticized in the reports was Lucy Q. Denett, the former associate director of minerals revenue management, who retired earlier this year as the inquiry was progressing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/washingt...royalty.html?em
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