Whos is Elizabeth Birnbaum
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A veteran of the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Birnbaum became director of MMS in the wake of a 2008 scandal in which former officials had received lavish gifts from oil company executives, as well as sexually cavorted and taken drugs with them.


MMS
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Interior Dept. scandal: Sex, drugs, energy deals probed at Denver office
Denver Post staff and wire reports

Posted: 09/10/2008 12:45:36 PM MDT
Updated: 12/03/2008 07:20:59 PM MST

Johnnie Burton, former Minerals Management service director, resigned last year in the wake of an investigation into her department. (Bloomberg News | Carlos Javier Sanchez)
BP and MMS Cover-Ups
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The Royalty in kind went from wyoming to the national stage
“The Department of the Interior is institutionally unwilling to aggressively collect the money owed to the American people by the oil industry,” stated Maloney’s report, titled A Wink and A Nod: How the Oil Industry and the Department of Interior are Cheating the American Public and California Schoolchildren. The report said that “for decades” Interior had given “loyal and devoted service to the petroleum industry” and had a record “replete with mismanagement, duplicity, evasions, and outright lies.”