This Week in the Mercury
Thursday, September 11, 2008
News I Want To Work For The Minerals Management Service...
Posted by Matt Davis on Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Hot damn. I want a job at the energy agency!
"including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct."
The agency collects $10bn a year, it's the government's second largest source of income after taxes, and...
The report says that eight officials in the royalty program 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.
Toby Keith! Golf! Minerals! What the hell more could you want? Oh, that's right, to give an energy executive the occasional blowjob...
On one occasion in 2002, the report said, two of the officials who marketed taxpayers' oil got so drunk at a daytime golfing event sponsored by Shell that they could not drive to their hotels and were put up in Shell-provided lodging. Two female employees "engaged in brief sexual relationships with industry contacts," the reports' cover memo said, adding that "sexual relationships with prohibited sources cannot, by definition, be arms' length."
The head of the agency says he plans to sort things out before quitting. I'd suggest, perhaps, that he resign and let someone else do the ethics investigation. I would be glad, for example, to shoulder the responsibility for a few months. Perhaps undercover. For the sake of thoroughness.
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