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The head of Exxon Mobil's (XOM.N) shale oil and gas business, a unit involved in merger talks with rival Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD.N), was arrested at a Texas hotel last week on a sexual assault charge, police said.

David Scott, an Exxon senior vice president who oversees all its shale oil and gas production business, was arrested early Thursday morning at a La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Magnolia, Texas, the Montgomery Sheriff's Office said.

Efforts to reach Scott were unsuccessful. It was not immediately clear if he had legal representation.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If only we could arrest people based on soulless, demonic gazes, this could've been avoided.

[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't agree with you, because that's a terrifying precedent, but he looks exactly like I would imagine an Exxon executive would look.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

I don't agree with myself either in this case.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago

They don't just rape the earth it seems

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Rooms at the hotel cost about $120 a night.

You know, in case anyone's looking for a room. Thanks Reuters

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly though, why was he there? So many nicer hotels that an oil exec can afford

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

committing heinous crimes is probably easier, when you are not at risk of running into any of your high society aquaintances. Except the ones that are about to do the same as you, so you both have black mail material on each other.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I was answering the other person as to why they included it. To make you assume that he was doing something horrific.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

An exec in a $120 hotel room could only be a guy seeing a sex-worker. No other explanation makes sense.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Weird as fuck to see a small town near me to be on the front page lol

[–] Dave_r@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)