Oil companies gave sex, drinks, gifts to federal overseers

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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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Party time! Broads, bosoms, and fun in the mile-high city! Quoting the article: "The reports said that the RIK unit's former Denver office director, Gregory Smith, encouraged his staff to develop close relationships with oil company officials so they could learn techniques for marketing the oil." Given the fact that RIK personnel were also selling for the industry they're supposed to regulate, they really needed those marketing skills. The really sad part about this scandal is that again there are no consequencies for corruption, which is why most RIK miscreants have not a shred of remorse about what they did.

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