The U.S. Interior Department has been suppressing action on audits showing underpayment by oil companies, and refusing to issue subpoenas against them, according to a New York Times article focusing on lawsuits unsealed in Oklahoma. False Claims Act suits by three department auditors allege that top brass at Interior blocked recovery of fraudulent underpayments of royalties for oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Suits Say U.S. Impeded Audits for Oil Leases - New York Times
Posted by dougsimpson at September 21, 2006 09:26 AM