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Bernard Dugué Bernard Dugué 29 janvier 2009 16:44


Douglas/Simon : Federal investigators said that the agency in charge of collecting oil and natural gas royalties was compromised for years by employees who improperly accepted gifts from oil company employees, handed out sweetheart deals, had sex with subordinates and industry contacts, and used illegal drugs.

The reports from the Interior Department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, the culmination of several years-long investigations, were the latest to question the cozy relationship between the energy industry and the Minerals Management Service, the Interior Department agency that issues lucrative drilling leases of taxpayer-owned land to energy companies and then collects royalties.

The reports detail a freewheeling "culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" in which employees of the Denver-based Royalty in Kind program considered themselves part of a commercial enterprise that wasn’t bound by government ethics rules, Devaney wrote in a letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne.

Royalty in Kind employees routinely allowed energy companies to revise their bids for oil or natural gas after the sale had been awarded to the company. Out of 121 amendments reviewed, only three favored the government. The amendments favoring industry were worth about $4.4 million.

Some MMS officials also allegedly steered lucrative agency contracts to a company in which they held a financial interest.

Devaney said that one forme

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