ethical failure. more specifically, a number of managers, quote, frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives. in addition to getting high with the oil company people they were supposed to be overseeing, the bush administration s minerals management service also had its employees shtooping each other and doing drugs with each other, too, leading even relatively staid newspapers like the houston chronicle to lead stories this way. quote, a program director allegedly snorts crystal meth off a toaster oven. snorting meth off a toaster oven. in the bush administration, this was your minerals management service at work. employees whose job it was to regulate the oil and gas industry also took gifts from that industry, including staying overnight at an oil company-owned resort lodge, after getting too hammered with
ethical failure. more specifically, a number of managers, quote, frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives. in addition to getting high with the oil company people they were supposed to be overseeing, the bush administration s minerals management service also had its employees shtooping each other and doing drugs with each other, too, leading even relatively staid newspapers like the houston chronicle to lead stories this way. quote, a program director allegedly snorts crystal meth off a toaster oven. snorting meth off a toaster oven. in the bush administration, this was your minerals management service at work. employees whose job it was to regulate the oil and gas industry also took gifts from that industry, including staying overnight at an oil company-owned resort lodge, after getting too hammered with oil and gas company employees to be allowed to drive themselves home.
overnight at an oil company-owned resort lodge, after getting too hammered with oil and gas company employees to be allowed to drive themselves home. the oil and gas industry still produces its share of scandals, but since the bush administration, the scandals are a little bit sexy. i mean, in the literal sense that they re less about shtooping. a hearing today investigated federal loans given to a company called cylyndra. the awkwardness in that argument for the republicans is that the company was cleared to participate in this loan guarantee program by the george w. bush administration and the legislation creating the loan guarantee program was approved by the republican-controlled congress in 2005. that legislation creating the solyndra loan program was apr u
oil companies they were supposed to be regulating. mms employees reportedly had sexual encounters with one another and with oil industry employees. again, the folks they were supposed to be regulating. and two mms employees this might be my favorite part two mms employees reported they once stayed overnight at an oil company s resort lodge because they were too drunk to get themselves home. in other news, apparently oil companies have resort lodges where they get oil industry regulators from the government hammered. this incredible ethical catastrophe took place in the royalty in kind office of the minerals management service in denver. that was part of the agency responsible for collecting royalties for those companies drilling our oil. companies taking our oil out of federal land are supposed to pay us for it. that sex, drugs and toaster ovens and drunk resort lodges office was the office responsible for collecting those