Auditor gets $23M whistlebower reward

It was almost seven years ago that a federal employee alleged that Kerr-McGee Oil and Gas had cheated the government out of millions of dollars in royalties. Bobby Maxwell, a government auditor claimed that the company was vastly underpaying royalties on 57 oil leases it held with the government. Recently, a federal judge ordered Kerr-McGee to pay nearly $23 million in penalties, or treble