Man Claims Oil Pimps Tried to Trade "Teenage Prostitute" for Land Rights
An Iowa man says an oil company offered him the services of a “$1,200 teenage prostitute” if he agreed to let them run a crude oil pipeline through his land. Crude oil indeed.
Hughie Tweedy told the Gazette that the company, Dakota Access (a subsidiary of a Texas firm called Energy Transfer Partners), thrice extended the offer of “the sexual services of a woman,” contingent on his agreeing to have a $3.8 billion Illinois-to-North-Dakota pipeline routed through his property.
Tweedy, who identifies as a Libertarian, says he told Dakota Access that in addition to offering up the services of an underage hooker, the company’s representative had admitted to faking an archaeological study to get the state to approve the project.
He claims he recorded his conversations with the alleged pimp, held over beers, but that his attorney has advised him not to play them for the media, so he can save them for a potential lawsuit.
“On these recordings you will hear evidence of my senior pipeline representative offering me not once, not twice, but three times the sexual services of a woman, the last time being a $1200 teenage prostitute,” he said.
Tweedy also happens to be a self-described libertarian who not only opposes the pipeline being built on his land, but opposes it coming through Iowa altogether.
“I want the pipeline to go around me, but honestly I don’t want the pipeline in the state of Iowa. I think the cost and benefits don’t add up,” he said earlier this week in a speech from the capital steps in Des Moines.
“If an old junkyard dog like me was offered the sexual services of little girls to get my hackles down, I wonder what was offered to the powerbrokers of this state to gain their support for silence,” he added. “Shame, shame, shame.”
Dakota Access claims to be investigating his allegations.
