a report released by the inspector general s office reveals that mms employees accepted gifts, used drugs and had sexual relationships with oil industry employees, which critics say calls into question mms s enforcement of some environmental and safety standards. you can t trust mms. they ve shown they re too cozy with industry. it is long past time to drain the safety swamp that has become the minerals management service. reporter: and that may be harder to do than one might imagine. a so-called revolving door between the mms and the oil industry had workers leaving the agency and going straight to work for oil companies. we contacted mms for a statement and they declined to comment. it s sickening we ve allowed people at bp to go out and support our resources when they have a long history of deliberately defying our rules and regulations, policies and safeguards. reporter: that is why the mineral management service makes our list of the culprits of the
companies but also collects revenues from them. how could you have an administration and an agency charged with the responsibility for getting money in, in royalties and at the same time have restricting access only to those that were demonstrating the proper set of conduct? i mean, it s a built-in conflict. reporter: a built-in conflict, which has led to a history of misconduct. a report released by the inspector general s office reveals that mms employees accepted gifts, used drugs and had sexual relationships with oil industry employees, which critics say calls into question mms s enforcement of some environmental and safety standards. you can t trust mms. they ve shown they re too cozy with industry. it is long past time to drain the safety swamp that has become the minerals management service. reporter: and that may be harder to do than one might imagine.