In essence, the BLM is a criminal mafia racket, and Cliven Bundy just happened to be in the way of their next target, the Gold Butte area of Nevada. That is why they brought hundreds of heavily armed men to a "save the tortoise" operation."
The current Head (Director) of the BLM was a Dingy Harry Lackey just 3 years ago.
So is Dingy, his fam or buds getting a piece of the oil action? "
It sounds like what happened is similar to what they tried to do with the coal terminal project in Whatcom County , WA.
The terminal is to be built in a wet land area, close to the Lummi reservation. So first, they made a deal with BP, which removed the land from the storm water district and then they tried to make a deal with The People for Puget Sound, which was one of the most powerful NGOs in the state, to allow the PPS to control all the mitigation funds which should have gone to Whatcom County. The claim was that their studies show that off sight mitigation is much more effective than on sight mitigation. What it really does is pay off the NGO and buy their support instead opposition. In the case of the Whatcom County coal terminal, the deal was exposed and the NGO ended up losing their state funding. The deal with the coal terminal on Whatcom County was illegal partly because of the involvement of BP, which had a vested interest in the coal terminal and a seat on the storm water advisory board, which was working with the People for Puget Sound.