Government brokers responsible for collecting billions of dollars in federal oil royalties operated in a "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" that included having sex with energy company employees, accepting lavish gifts and rigging contracts to favored firms, investigators said Wednesday. Full Story »
Posted by Matthew Reibel
This article is poorly organized and not much better written, but its subject matter is important: more corruption and scandal in our government. Unethical shenanigans abound -- prohibited sexual relations, venality, lavish gifts, and dual, conflict-of-interest positions held simultaneously. The Bush/Cheney-led government is so riddled with scandal and corruption that another discovered instance of it, while certainly newsworthy, is not really news to us.
