No More Sex and Drugs in the Interior Department. By Lydia DePillis, New Republic, September 18, 2009. "On September 16, Wednesday, the Interior Department finally terminated a program few people had ever heard of: the royalty-in-kind (RIK) system, which allowed oil and gas companies to drill in public lands and pay the government in oil, rather than cash. Over the past decade, the program, run out of an office in suburban Denver, had allowed companies to underpay the government by $10 million. But that's not why it was shut down -- the tale goes well beyond ordinary waste and abuse and into the... realm of sex, drugs, and graft."
2009-11-07
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