Report: Former BLM manager took oil company gifts

[Robbien]

Source: AP

SANTA FE, N.M. -- An investigation has found that a former Bureau of Land Management official in New Mexico who oversaw one of the largest onshore mineral production areas in the U.S. took gifts from an oil company and misused travel funds.

Details of the Interior Department probe were released Monday in documents obtained by an environmental group through a records request.

The investigation says former Farmington BLM district manager Steve Henke (heen-KEY') took gifts from Williams Exploration and Production - golf tickets, lodging and meals - and solicited donations for his son's youth baseball teams.

Henke retired in May to become head of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association. He says no regulatory favors were exchanged with the industry.

Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/08/23/2050966/report-former-blm-manager-took.html

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Investigation showed this guy took bribes but he swore he did nothing in return. We are to believe BigOil gives away money for the fun of it.

Case closed I guess. No charges filed.

[oldhippydude]

1. par for the course in new mexico

i was hoping the Richardson administration, would clear up some of those historic problems... unfortunately that has not proven to be the case..

[jberryhill]

2. I'm so pissed I didn't apply to Interior years ago

That whole department sounds like a party.

Trolling DU for ten cents a post and no benefits sucks.