http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-norton17-2009sep17,0,6215749.storyBy Jim Tankersley and Josh Meyer
September 17, 2009
Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton is focus of corruption probe
The Justice Department investigation centers on a 2006 decision to award oil shale leases in Colorado
to a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary. Months later, the oil giant hired Norton as a legal counsel.
Reporting from Washington - The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A.
Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to
officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Department.
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Interior Department investigators referred the case to the Justice Department after concluding that there was sufficient evidence
of potential illegal conduct, according to federal law enforcement and Interior officials. The officials spoke on the condition of
anonymity because of the sensitive and confidential nature of the case.
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Norton, 55, was President Bush's first Interior secretary. She had worked as an Interior Department attorney before being
elected Colorado's attorney general. Later, as a private lawyer, she represented mining, timber and oil companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_WhitmanSeptember 11 attacks
Whitman appeared twice in New York City after the September 11 attacks to inform New Yorkers that the toxins released by the attacks posed no threat to their health.
On September 18, the EPA released a report in which Whitman said, "Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York
and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink." She also said, "The concentrations are such that they don't pose a health hazard...
We're going to make sure everybody is safe." Later, a 2003 report by the EPA's inspector general determined that such assurances were misleading, because the EPA
"did not have sufficient data and analysis" to justify the assertions when they were made.
And that dirty air led to this:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/nypd-first-responder-remembered-at-smithtown-funeral-1.1518768New York City Police Officer Robert Grossman was remembered at his funeral in Smithtown Monday as a husband, a father, a son, a brother and a
friend to countless people he met over the years.
His death left a void in their world as they and hundreds of mourners bid farewell to the Rocky Point resident who died Friday at a local
hospice. Grossman, 41, developed a brain tumor his physician and family said he got when he worked at Ground Zero on Sept. 11, 2001,
and in the weeks following the terrorist attacks.
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Many first responders and their relatives have said they were sickened after working at or near Ground Zero but New York City officials have stopped short
of saying the air quality in lower Manhattan after 9/11 was unsafe.
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Good chance more people are going to die because of breathing the dirty air after 9/11 than died on 9/11. I say we keep GITMO for all the crooks and
thugs who worked during bush's unelected regime. And for any troll, freeper, or Rush Limbaugh reading this post go ahead and double and triple check
my facts.
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