Posted on 09/17/2009 12:19:53 PM PDT by Nachum
The Justice Department investigation centers on a 2006 decision to award oil shale leases in Colorado to a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary. Months later, the oil giant hired Norton as a legal counsel.
Reporting from Washington - The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Departmen
The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department's 2006 decision to award three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a Shell subsidiary. Over the years it would take to extract the oil, according to calculations from Shell and a Rand Corp. expert, the deal could net the company hundreds of billions of dollars.
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The list, ping
Hey look, the Justice Department found some corruption to investigate.
Multiple ironies. Ken Salazar supported Norton’s appointment when Bush nominated her.
Is this anything like Stephanopolis going from the White House to ABC?
It’s a worthless deal if Shell can never mine the oil shale.
No. Of course not. Nothing like it. Ahem.
In California, our lobbyists are prostitutes.
More BS from the LA times - deal could be worth hundreds of billions. Well, if it really was, Obama would confiscate the land and use the funds to help pay for his socialized medicine. Can’t wait for the LAT to go belly up. It is second only to the NYT.
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