Is a Major Oil Company Short-Changing the American Public?

We can't impeach these greedy bastards and others like them. We didn't elect them to anything.

They are just citizens like the rest of us.

What would you do if you knew that your neighbor was siphoning gasoline out of your tank every night?

Call the cops? And if the Cops did nothing?

Think about it.

NOW | Is a Major Oil Company Short-Changing the American Public?:

When veteran government auditor Bobby Maxwell learned oil giant Kerr-McGee was not paying the $10 million he says it owed in oil royalties, he prepared an order to Kerr-McGee to pay up. Making sure the government gets its money from energy companies was Maxwell's job in the Minerals Management Service (MMS), a division of the Department of the Interior.

But Maxwell claims his bosses at the MMS quashed that order.

After filing a lawsuit under the False Claims Act, which protects and encourages whistle-blowers, Maxwell lost his job.

On Friday, May 11, at 8:30 p.m., NOW talks with Maxwell about the personal and professional price he says he paid in pursuit of fairness, and examines an industry under fire for keeping too much of the enormous revenue it makes for drilling on land and waters owned by us all.

Are oil and gas companies being protected - and even feted - by the government agency charged with regulating them?