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- <title>
- May 22, 1989: Business Notes:Scams
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 22, 1989 Politics, Panama-Style
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 89
- Business Notes
- SCAMS
- 100 for You, One for Me
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- <p> To several hard-pressed Indian tribes, the millions of
- gallons of oil and gas flowing from reservation wells have meant
- the difference between crushing poverty and financial stability.
- Now the Senate Special Committee on Investigations reports that
- one oil company may have stolen as much as 1.9 million bbl.,
- worth $31 million, from the tribes since 1986. In hearings
- before the committee last week, investigators told of concealing
- themselves near remote oil-storage depots in Oklahoma earlier
- this spring to watch employees of Wichita-based Koch Industries
- transferring oil from Osage tribal storage tanks to trucks.
- According to witnesses, Koch employees typically reported
- removing only 100 bbl. of oil for every 101 bbl. actually taken.
- Arizona's Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the
- committee, said he would refer the matter to the Justice
- Department for possible prosecution.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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