A report released by the Department of Interior this week has found that a Bureau of Land Management supervisor from Utah violated federal ethics rules at Burning Man.
The report said the agent used his position to get his family and girlfriend into Burning Man, and influenced the hiring process for a friend. The Department of Interior’s Office of the Inspector General investigated three complaints about the agent for a year and a half.
The Reno Gazette Journal reportsthat the agent is not named in the report, but is described as the person behind many of the BLM requests at Burning Man that were canceled in 2015.
Those requests included a more than $1 million VIP compound complete with flushing toilets and 24-hour access to ice cream for BLM officials at the annual event in the Black Rock Desert. BLM officials have not disclosed the agent’s current employment status.