It sounds like Secretary Norton was earning her salary from Shell even before they put her on the payroll,
The Justice Department declined to file charges against Gale Norton.
By DAN BERMAN | 12/10/10 6:15 PM EST Updated: 12/10/10 7:12 PM EST
The Justice Department has declined to file charges against former Interior Secretary Gale Norton in connection with oil shale bids by Royal Dutch Shell.
At issue are valuable oil shale leases that Shell won from Interior after Norton left the George W. Bush administration in March 2006 but before she took a job as a lawyer with the oil giant that December.
We found that Norton was very interested in the [Research, Development and Demonstration] program during her tenure as secretary, but we did not find evidence to conclusively determine that Norton violated conflict-of-interest laws, either pre- or post-employment, with Shell, Acting Interior Department Inspector General Mary Kendall wrote in a letter accompanying a report obtained by POLITICO.
The IG found that after leaving Interior but before joining Shell, Norton failed to fully describe her role in the leasing program to department ethics officials. After she was hired, Norton contacted the Pentagon and Interiors Bureau of Land Management, indirectly, regarding oil shale issues. read more
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