Tag: Minerals Management Service

The Department of Interior has disciplined eight government employees for their role in a wide-ranging scandal that involved illegal drugs, sex with oil company employees and financial shenanigans at a federal agency in Denver charged with collecting energy royalties for taxpayers, The Associated Press reported Friday morning.

Stories about unethical behavior at the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service just keep coming. Back in high school I learned that Shakespeare's plays always have violence, sex, or drugs in the first act, and this story has all three. It keeps the attention of even the least intelligent among us which explains why, my friends, this scandal ain't going nowhere anytime soon.

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Just when you think you have seen it all. State Democratic leaders sent out a press release this afternoon criticizing the Republicans for a "drill only" energy platform. Not wasting much time to marry Republicans to the latest scandal coming from Washington, D.C. that also has Colorado ties, House Majority Leader Alice Madden, D, took a shot across the bow.

Scathing reports released Wednesday charge officials with "a culture of ethical failure" involving sex, drugs and financial shenanigans at a federal agency in Denver charged with collecting energy royalties for taxpayers.