The corruption of the Mineral Management Service has been revealed in a shocking report by the U.S. Inspector General. It exposed a lax culture of complacency and arrogance, where MMS executives accepted gifts, money, sports tickets, drugs, vacations, and jobs from numerous oil corporations-- not just BP.
that oil employees would fill in maintenance test documents with pencil and the inspectors would finalize the reports by going over the content with ink.
While the world is reeling from the worst natural disaster in U.S. history and heart-wrenching photographs of dead dolphins, oil covered brown pelicans, sea turtles, and other marine life, are circulating in the media and on the Internet daily—the result of the Inspector General’s investigation is particularly offensive.
Reportedly, Alaska officials handed out cash bonuses to insiders, who would expedite the permit process. At the same time, biologists and marine scientists were basically censored if they dared to raise any red flags or warnings of any potential disasters—like what happened on April 20.
