By arresting a former BP engineer Tuesday, federal prosecutors for the first time showed their hand in the Gulf oil spill case, saying they were probing whether BP PLC and its employees broke the law by intentionally lowballing how much oil was spewing from its out-of-control well.
In an affidavit, the U.S. Department of Justice said it was investigating whether BP and its employees broke the law "by intentionally understating" how much oil was leaking.
Legal experts said this was likely just the first move by the Justice Department.
The federal agency made it clear the investigation still is ongoing and suggested more people could be arrested.
http://www.timesunion.com/news/artic...#ixzz1tEWUXgH7
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Federal authorities arrested the engineer, Kurt Mix of Katy, Tex., on Tuesday and charged him with two counts of obstruction of justice.
Court documents filed with the charges and Mr. Mix’s relatively low rank within BP suggested that the charges were just the opening salvo in the government’s case against the company...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/bu...pill-case.html
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
that is still 11 too many
let us hope that all of the companies involved get nailed
it seems that there is enough malfeasance involved that more criminal and civil complaints should be filed
however, your pet bp is sufficiently to blame to deserve everything that gets thrown at it
I pledge allegiance to the constitution of the United States of America as amended by the legislative and executive branches and interpreted by the Supreme Court
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
not really, only far left liberals like legion, don etc....can't comprehend the idea of an accident. you're right about the US being highly litigious, though, to our credit, we are working on the system and many states have implemented alternative resolution programs and they are mandated in virtually every case now.
I will remind you once again what happened with Piper Alpha where 167 men died. Occidental Petroleum literally got away with murder, in my view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha
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Dow is hardly an innocent, they have always denied their culpability for Agent Orange in Vietnam, Cambodia and Korea. The only reason that Union Carbide sold their assets to Dow was to avoid further litigation over the 25,000 deaths and 500,000 injuries. I have never considered $400 million adequate compensation for what was nothing less than a holocaust!! That amounted to an average of less than a thousand dollars per person, the shrimps in the Gulf got more than that!!
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