It is a strange world we live in. Poor ol' Bill Allen is to be pitied. All he did was the oil corps bidding, laundering oily cash in direct handouts to legislators and building additions on a US senator's house. Allen paid the price but no oil executives were ever charged. The current crop of oil legislators are so brash and in your face with their corruption. Many of them are employees of oil, merely disguised as Legislators. It is hard to believe that it is all "legal" even though the corruption and immorality is patently obvious, this idea that "elected" (read that bought) officials can strip a citizenry of constitutionally protected natural resources while robbing the treasury at the same time. I continue to hope for someone amongst us to rise up with an ballot initiative or for a constitutional law firm to file a class action suit.