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Had sex not been part of the Inspector General's report--along with trips, gifts, parties, drugs and rigged contracts--it is hard to believe that all three networks would have assigned a reporter to cover the ethical failures of a dozen-or-so bureaucrats in the Minerals Management Service of the Department of the Interior. But it turned out that some of the inspectors, whose job it was to check that royalties were paid on oil extracted from federal lands, had slept with some of the employees of the firms they were monitoring. Voila! "Big Oil is absolutely in bed with the government," was the soundbite used by NBC's Tom Costello…"literally and figuratively in bed with Big Oil," was the quote for CBS' Sharyl Attkisson…and for ABC's Lisa Stark: "literally in bed with the industry."
No evidence was found that the fraternization led to underpayment of royalties.
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