Interior Disciplines Staffers For Partying With Oil Workers

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Looks like having sex with employees of oil companies you’re supposed to be regulating — not to mention doing drugs in the office — isn’t such a great career move after all.

An internal Interior Department report issued in September found that a “culture of substance abuse and promiscuity” had existed from 2002 to 2006 in the department Denver office. Staffers had been getting drunk and having sex with oil company personnel, as well as doing coke and smoking pot in the office.

And today, reports the Associated Press, Interior took disciplinary action against those involved — ranging from a warning letter to termination. The department wouldn’t provide further details on the punishments.

Workers in the office were also found to have accepted golf and ski trips, snowboarding lessons and concert tickets from oil companies.

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