Birnbaum took over the Interior Department's embattled Minerals Management Service (MMS) after it was stung by scandal involving sex, drugs and bribery. Savage, Charlie, New York Times, "Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department," September 10, 2008(1)Savage, Charlie, New York Times, "Sex, Drug Use and Graft Cited in Interior Department," September 10, 2008
The agency was in charge of not only selling leases for energy companies to search for oil and gas on federal lands but also overseeing the safety of those operations.
In late 2008, Interior's Inspector General Earl E. Devaney discovered that MMS officials had accepted extravagant gifts from oil and gas company representatives and also did drugs and had sexual relationships with them. Kravitz, Derek and Mary Pat Flaherty, The Washington Post, "Report Says Oil Agency Ran Amok," September 11, 2008(2)
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