Interior secretary to clean up after oil-sex scandal

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Interior secretary to clean up after oil-sex scandal
Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:18pm EST
By Tom Doggett

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will take action to clean up the Interior Department which was tarnished by sex, drug and gift-taking scandals between some employees and workers at energy companies they regulated, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday ...

Salazar will travel on Thursday to the department's field office in Colorado -- the eye of the scandal storm -- to discuss what has been done to address the problem and additional steps that need to be taken.

"The type of ethical transgressions, the blatant conflicts of interests, wastes, and abuses that we have seen over the last eight years (under the Bush administration) will no longer be tolerated," Salazar said.

The department's inspector general, Earl Devaney, found there was "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" among employees at the department's Minerals Management Service, which handles billions of dollars in oil and natural gas supplies that are turned over by companies as in-kind royalty payments for drilling on federal lands ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE50R6YI20090128?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews

[yourout]

1. Thats one spill I'm glad I dont have to clean up.

[lapfog_1]

3. In other news...

"Republicans aghast at the size of Obama's Stimulus Package".

Sorry, couldn't help it.

[itsrobert]

2. Use Bounty

the quicker picker upper.

[Arctic Dave]

4. So that is why they call it a bung hole on a 55gal. drum.

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