Criminal Negligence comes in many forms

How it is we blew-off the Interior Department’s booth at the Job Fair a few years back will never be fully explained.

WASHINGTON – Government officials in charge of collecting billions of dollars' worth of royalties from oil and gas companies accepted gifts, steered contracts to favored clients, and engaged in drug use and illicit sex with employees of the energy firms, federal investigators reported yesterday.

Investigators from the inspector general's office of the Interior Department said more than a dozen current and former employees, including the former director of the oil royalty program, took meals, ski trips, sports tickets and golf outings from industry representatives.

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