Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterBLM Office Made Improper Deals With Helium Refiners, Report Says
Published 8/22/2008 by Derek Kravitz at Wash Post Federal Page
An office of the Bureau of Land Management, which supplies much of the country's crude helium, entered into sweetheart deals with a group of private refiners, potentially costing taxpayers more than $100 million, according to an inspector general's report released yesterday.
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