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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sex, Drugs and Energy?

the Denver Post

WASHINGTON — Government workers in Denver engaged in secret sex and drug abuse with oil company employees and accepted thousand of dollars in gifts while handling billions of dollars worth of energy contracts, federal investigators said today.

Employees at the Minerals Management Service including the former head of the Denver division repeatedly and "without remorse" violated ethics rules over a four-year period, the Interior Department's Inspector General said.

The three reports released today describe a widespread pattern of abuse as well as a pervasive belief that the rules didn't apply.

In the Royalty in Kind division of Minerals Management Service, the report said, "between 2002 and 2006, nearly one-third of the staff socialized with, and received a wide array of gifts and gratuities from oil and gas companies with whom RIK was conducting official business...these employees accepted gifts with prodigious frequency."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is no suprise. Seems corruption has been going on in Colorado government for years. Specially within your criminal justice, police and dept of corrections. The press just hasnt been reporting the real news!! djw