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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (84532)5/25/2010 8:45:16 AM
From: Hope Praytochange   of 224691
 
Regulators Accepted Gifts From Oil Industry, Report Says

By STEPHEN POWER
WASHINGTON—Employees of a federal agency that regulates offshore drilling—including some whose duties included inspecting offshore oil rigs—accepted sporting-event tickets, lunches and other gifts from oil- and natural-gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to a new report by the Interior Department's inspector general.

The report—which hasn't been made public by the inspector general but was described Tuesday in an email from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar—notes "a number of violations" of federal regulations and agency ethics rules by staffers assigned to the Lake Charles, La., office of the Minerals Management Service, a unit of Interior that manages the nation's offshore oil and gas resources, Mr. Salazar said in his statement.
Mr. Salazar disclosed some of the inspector general's findings ahead of congressional hearings later this week that are to focus on his plan to restructure the agency following the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The accident led to the deaths of 11 workers and to the spillage of thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico each day.

The New York Times also reported on findings of the inspector general's report Tuesday morning.
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