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“The fact that they only gave money when he was doing these final rules, that more than ever really raises flags. There’s something fishy going on.”
Rep. Mark Ferrandino, commenting on campaign contributions from payday lending companies to Attorney General John Suthers as Suthers writes regulations to implement a new payday lending law, as reported in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, August 13, 2010

Norton's job in oil a slip-up?

By Steve Raabe, The Denver Post,
September 18, 2009

Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton, until now, has escaped the cross hairs in a series of scandals that plagued her federal agency.

Norton never was implicated in cases ranging from Interior employees illicitly having sex and using drugs to officials serving prison time for obstruction of justice.

But with a private-sector job in the oil-shale industry, Norton finds herself the target of a criminal investigation over her former agency's dealings with her current employer, petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell.


For the full story, please visit http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_13362210
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