It sounds like Secretary Norton was earning her salary from Shell even before they put her on the payroll,
We found that Norton was very interested in the [Research, Development and Demonstration] program during her tenure as secretary, but we did not find evidence to conclusively determine that Norton violated conflict-of-interest laws, either pre- or post-employment, with Shell, Acting Interior Department Inspector General Mary Kendall wrote in a letter accompanying a report obtained by POLITICO.
The IG found that after leaving Interior but before joining Shell, Norton failed to fully describe her role in the leasing program to department ethics officials. After she was hired, Norton contacted the Pentagon and Interiors Bureau of Land Management, indirectly, regarding oil shale issues.
Kendall referred to the report to the Justice Department, which declined to file charges. But despite the lack of federal charges, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) delivered a scathing verdict.
It sounds like Secretary Norton was earning her salary from Shell even before they put her on the payroll, Rahall said in a statement.
In her report, Kendall wrote that the Office of Government Ethics suggested that Norton played a significant role in BLMs oil shale program while secretary and noted that the former secretarys participation in the program should subject her to the lifetime ban on communicating with the federal government regarding the program.
The IG also found that BLM appeared to give preferential treatment to Shell in two instances. In one case, two Shell bids were larger than the acreage allowed by BLM. In another, someone within the agency changed Shells numbers to comply with the requirements. Shell also submitted and won three bids while other prospective bidders were allowed only one bid.
We did not find evidence that Shell committed any criminal violation, but we did discover that someone in BLM provided Shell with information, which allowed Shell to submit a complete bid document on the same day that the Federal Register notice soliciting applications for leases was published, Kendall wrote. The next bid that BLM received came in 82 days later.
An Interior spokeswoman said the department is reviewing the report. Shells U.S. operations did not immediately respond for comment.
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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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