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< BACK TO Fresh Intelligence Coke, Blowjobs, And Free Hotels: The World's Most Awesome Government Agency
YEAH, MANAGE THOSE MINERALS MMS Execs (Mostly Innocent!) Hero? Yes. But party animal Greg Smith wasn't the only wonderful person in that office. There's Stacy Leyshon, who ate out on oil company's dimes regularly, helped out bidders when they forgot to include transportation costs—and also ran her own sex toy and party business, for which she'd pass out cards at work. (She had a franchise, apparently, of something called "Passion Parties, Inc.") She apparently spent many of her weekends skiing and playing golf with pals from Shell. Oops, one time she slept with a guy from Shell too. You can find the three amazing Department of the Interior reports here—they're the top three links on that page. The investigation took two years, more than $5 million and the review of nearly 500,000 documents, which seems a little insane, given that it just uncovers that the government runs offices that are just like our offices. One other thing that hasn't been noted in the newspapers: one employee from Shell refused to be interviewed, but they found a couple great emails from him, including an invite to a Houston Texans tailgate party, which read, in part, "You're invited... have you and the girls meet at my place at 6 a.m. for bubble baths and final prep. Just kidding...." And another, that said: "it's a given that the horsemen will indeed 'bring the meat to the table.'" Fortunately other Shell employees totally narced out the MMS party gals. The gals include Crystel Edler, who worked for Leyshon, who only had two relationships with oil industry execs (one each from Shell and Chevron). Also, Chevron as a whole refused to cooperate with the three years-long investigations into the cheating, cocaine-using, bid-downgrading, first-class-flying, subordinate-sexing drunken party that has been the Mineral Management Service these last few years. Even though clearly both Chevron and Shell had been providing "gifts" to the employees. This is what makes America great! Next time I drop 75 bucks at a Shell station I at least want a hand job. Posted by: KarenUhOh on September 11, 2008 10:54 AM Not to get all English major-y, but this government report is totes an example Foucault's spirals of pleasure and power. As a society, we only get to talk about sex and drugs when we're condemning them. Then we get to talk about them in juicy detail. Which is why the world needs Radar! Posted by: afarerkind on September 11, 2008 6:03 PM Advertisement |
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