Golf, Drinking, Partying and Contracts

Just when there was a glimmer of hope that the Indian trust fund case might be resolved comes further evidence of the kind that so incensed Judge Royce C. Lamberth that he got kicked off the case because his objectivity was called into question. AP reports that an Interior inspector general's report shows that senior managers in the department's Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians in Albuquerque, N.M., "golfed, drank and partied" with the executives of an accounting firm that won $6.6 million in business with the office over eight years.