FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CIV
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23. 2001
(202) 514-2007
TDD (202) 514-1888
SHELL OIL TO PAY UNITED STATES $110 MILLION FOR UNDERPAYMENT OF OIL ROYALTIES
WASHINGTON, D.C. Shell Oil Company has agreed to pay $110 million to resolve claims under the False Claims Act, and administrative claims that Shell underpaid royalties due for oil produced on federal leases from 1980 to December 31, 1998, the Justice Department announced today.
Federal leases are administered by the Minerals Management Service of the United States Department of the Interior. Each month, oil companies are required to report the amount of oil produced and the value of the oil produced on Federal and Indian leases. The companies pay royalties based upon the value of the oil they report.
J. Benjamin Johnson, Jr., and John Martinek filed a complaint in the United States District Court in Lufkin, Texas against the Shell on behalf of the United States under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. The two will share in the proceeds of the settlement.
Including today’s agreement with Shell, the Justice Department has reached settlements of more than $392 million to resolve claims of underpayment of oil royalties. Previously, the Department had reached agreements with Mobil Oil, $45 million; Oxy USA, Inc., $7.3 million; Chevron, $95 million; Conoco, $26 million; BP Amoco, $32 million; Texaco, $43 million; Pennzoil, $11.9 million; UPRC, $2.7 million; Sun Oil Company, $200,000; Kerr-McGee, $13 million; and Exxon, $7 million.
The investigation and settlement of the False Claims Act proceedings were jointly handled by the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas and the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, with the assistance of the Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General and the Minerals Management Service.
The case is entitled US ex rel. Johnson v. Shell Oil Co., Civil No. 9:96CV66
(E.D. Texas).
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/January/041civ.htm
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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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