EXTRACT: Norton, a former Colorado attorney general, resigned from Bush’s Cabinet in 2006. However, there’s never been any evidence that Norton knew that Abramoff or others were using her name to solicit funds from Indian tribes. She now works as a general counsel for oil giant Royal Dutch Shell – part of the same industry that was near and dear to Interior’s heart. Norton was attacked by environmentalists as Interior secretary for her pro-development policies regarding oil and gas, coal and timber.
THE ARTICLE: Article Last Updated: 03/27/2007 03:22:01 AM MDT
Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles’ guilty plea to obstruction of justice last week marked another disgraceful chapter in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.
It also served as a reminder of how poorly the Interior Department and thus the West have been served during the Bush administration’s six years in office.
Griles became the highest-ranking Bush administration official convicted in connection with Abramoff – a still-unraveling scandal that has tentacles all over Washington.
The former No. 2 at Interior, previously a coal-industry lobbyist, pleaded guilty to lying to a Senate committee about his relationship with Abramoff, the disgraced former lobbyist now serving time for fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion.
Griles told the Senate panel that his relationship with Abramoff was the same as any other lobbyist. But Griles’ girlfriend at the time, a lobbyist named Italia Federici, had actually introduced the two. She then acted as a go-between as Abramoff gained direct access to Griles.
Abramoff used his relationship with Griles to convince his Indian casino clients that he had special ties to the department and then influenced them to pay $500,000 to an advocacy group originally co-founded by Federici and Interior Secretary Gale Norton before Norton joined the Cabinet.
Norton, a former Colorado attorney general, resigned from Bush’s Cabinet in 2006. However, there’s never been any evidence that Norton knew that Abramoff or others were using her name to solicit funds from Indian tribes.
She now works as a general counsel for oil giant Royal Dutch Shell – part of the same industry that was near and dear to Interior’s heart. Norton was attacked by environmentalists as Interior secretary for her pro-development policies regarding oil and gas, coal and timber.
Under Norton and Griles, Interior kept at arm’s length all of those who wanted to balance drilling with better protections for wildlife and water quality as they pushed pro-development policies on the West’s public lands. They also promoted other policies that defied good stewardship of public resources, such as selling off tracts of Bureau of Land Management holdings.
Prosecutors have recommended a 10- month prison sentence for Griles, the minimum required. He is the 10th person to face criminal charges in the Justice Department probe into Abramoff.
And the investigation isn’t over yet.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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