Charlie Savage of the New York Times reports today:
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.”
On one occasion, the report said, the royalty-in-kind program allowed a Chevron representative who had won a bid to purchase some of the government’s oil to pay taxpayers a lower amount than his winning offer because he said he had made a mistake in his calculations. A report from Mr. Devaney’s office earlier this year found that the program had frequently allowed companies that purchased the oil and gas to revise their bids downward after they won contracts. It documented 118 such occasions that cost taxpayers about $4.4 million in all.
Outrage, anyone?
scomule2
fuckin jerks
September 11, 2008 at 5:48 pm
johnnyant
The story never ends! It’s time for a revolution!!
September 11, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Mr.D
Sweet deal! Who do I submit my reseme to?
Really,I wonder if someone will be looking into this $4.5 mil that was negotiated away when these oil people ‘miscalculated’ their bids.Dig deeper.Don’t let them get away with this.
Whose pocket did that money go into?
September 12, 2008 at 9:06 am
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September 15, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Truther Teller
Everything on this site is bull crap, Liberal Disinformation!
9/11 was a inside job, WW3 soon caused by another false flag attack and you stupid americans cant even see it coming from your own Regime. Fuk your North American Union American pigs
September 17, 2008 at 8:44 am
Joe Newman
hey truther teller,
we welcome your comments, even if they are mostly nonsensical rants. but please watch the obscenities and threats or we’ll have to take your comments down. have a nice day!
September 18, 2008 at 10:55 am