Ex-oil exec says he paid Alaska lawmaker
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The former head of an oil field services company testified Wednesday that he paid a lawmaker nearly $8,000 to help keep him in office and advocate for the construction of a natural gas pipeline tapping the state's vast North Slope Reserves.
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The former head of pipeline   inspections for BP Plc.'s BP.L Alaska unit asserted his   Constitutional right to avoid testifying before the U.S.   Congress because of "potential criminal exposure," according to   a letter from his attorney released on Friday.
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An Iraqi-American businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he received payments from Iraq to illegally act as its agent in the United States, including getting millions of dollars worth of oil from the United Nations' oil-for-food program.
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In four separate pieces of legislation -- two energy bills, the farm bill and a bill that would fund rural schools and libraries -- lawmakers in the House of Representatives make use of $6 billion in payments from oil companies.
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New Jersey's multimillionaire governor gave his ex-girlfriend, a powerful union leader, more than $6 million when they broke up in 2004, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
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The former chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, who earlier this year ended negotiations to head the pharmaceutical industry's top lobby after critics questioned the ethics of the move, has now accepted the post, the group said on Wednesday.
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BP BP.L told U.S. lawmakers on   Thursday that it could restart its giant oil field in Alaska by   the end of October after rusty pipelines forced part of the   field shut last month, though a former senior BP manager in   Alaska refused to testify about the pipeline corrosion.
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A U.S. congressman from Louisiana, under investigation by the FBI after they found $90,000 in cash in his freezer, was endorsed by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Saturday and vowed that allegations of bribery would not hurt his re-election campaign.
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Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, confers with Paul Grove, right, a staffer for the Subcommittee for Foreign Operations, during a meeting on the end of the year spending bill on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Nov.
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A former energy company executive testified yesterday that his employees worked on an expansive reconstruction of the house of Sen. Ted Stevens (R), who is under investigation in a federal probe of corruption among Alaska lawmakers.
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A U.S. government agent who analyzed  the tax returns of Conrad Black&#39;s former company testified on  Wednesday that the firm would have had nearly $24 million more  in income over two years if money had not been diverted by the  former media baron and his associates.
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A former Michigan State assistant coach testified in federal court Tuesday that he was told money had been paid to a high school coach to influence a top Memphis recruit's choice of college.
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An Alaska oil contractor cooperated with the FBI by tape-recording phone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) as part of a public corruption investigation, a source familiar with the probe said last night.
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When oil prices punched through $75 a barrel and gasoline topped $3 a gallon five months ago, members of Congress offered a raft of proposals, ranging from more U.S. drilling to windfall profits taxes to antitrust investigations. They railed against oil executives' pay packages, and some called for...
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A once-successful attorney has been ordered to pay his ex-wife &#36;4.2 million, but his odds of paying up soon don't look good &#151; he's sat in jail for nearly a decade insisting he doesn't have the money.
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A former Army Corps of Engineers contractor accused of giving confidential information to a company seeking work on a levee reconstruction project has agreed to plead guilty to bribery, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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A former in-house Enron Corp. accountant said he was convinced that the energy giant&#39;s unofficial promise to buy back several barges sold to Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.