Where the cash at, where the stash at...MMS, pimps, hos, cocaine, bubble baths...Last Days of Disco at the Department of the Interior...

...this shit is ridiculous...the news last night said as many as a third of the employees of MMS royalty-in-kind office were implicated in some element of Oil-for-Coke. WaPo has Gregory W. Smith in

an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate whom he paid to buy cocaine, allegedly promising her a $250 bonus in return.

They also have:

a Shell Pipeline representative asking a woman in the royalty office to attend "tailgating festivities" at a Houston Texans football game: "You're invited . . . have you and the girls meet at my place at 6am for bubble baths and final prep. Just kidding."

The two honchos, Smith and Denett, have already resigned. Smith is still in the industry. Denett's husband, who had worked at OMB, actually retired before she did. What did he know about this and when? Also, why did Justice decide not to prosecute the higher-ups?
IG's reports here and here.
To recap: a handful of people pilfered 4 million out of a 4 billion-dollar-a-year program, allowed companies bidding for extraction permits to revise their winning bids downward, received Abramoffian perks in order to gain preferential treatment, and had nothing better to do on the taxpayer's dime than fuck and snort blow...and now is the time to vote on offshore drilling! The evil genius of Harry Reid! Viz. this deadpan tidbit just before the IG report came out:

We are offering Republicans multiple opportunities to vote for increased drilling.

We are giving those who see government as a field for entreprenuerial exploitation enough rope, in other words...
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Just moved to Columbus OH...promise to get pictures of Schmidt's Fudge Haus und Political Tombstone...right now i'm just trying to get the trash picked up...you know, some retail politics...
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