Thursday, September 21, 2006
The falling gas prices are merely a thank you to Our Dear Embattled Leader
For all his hard work in preserving the profits of Big Oil. One of the easier ways they did so was simply to call off the watchdogs.
Four government auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property say the Interior Department suppressed their efforts to recover millions of dollars from companies they said were cheating the government.The Republican Way, take everything that belongs to us and give it to their good friends. And, by the by, don't expect gas prices to stay down after the election. If nothing else, the new War in Iran should send them through the roof.
The accusations, many of them in four lawsuits that were unsealed last week by federal judges in Oklahoma, represent a rare rebellion by government investigators against their own agency.
The auditors contend that they were blocked by their bosses from pursuing more than $30 million in fraudulent underpayments of royalties for oil produced in publicly owned waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
“The agency has lost its sense of mission, which is to protect American taxpayers,” said Bobby L. Maxwell, who was formerly in charge of Gulf of Mexico auditing. “These are assets that belong to the American public, and they are supposed to be used for things like education, public infrastructure and roadways.”
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