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09/23/2013
Halliburton pleads guilty to charges stemming from BP oil
spill
By Tom Hall
- http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/23/hali-s23.html
Oil services company Halliburton pled guilty Thursday to federal
charges of destroying evidence in the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil
spill, agreeing to a paltry $200,000 fine and a three-year
probation period.
This is the maximum statutory fine associated with the charge of
"intentionally causing damage without authorization to a protected
computer," a misdemeanor. Meanwhile, felony proceedings on charges
of tampering with evidence began against the former Halliburton
manager, Anthony Badalamenti, who ordered the cover-up. If
convicted, Badalamenti faces fines and up to 20 years in
prison.
The 2010 oil spill, which stemmed from a fire on the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig resulting in 11 deaths, lasted for months and led
to around 5 million barrels of oil being released into the Gulf of
Mexico over a surface area of as much as 68,000 square miles. The
most serious environmental catastrophe in American history, the
effects are still being felt along the Gulf Coast, compounded by a
cleanup effort concerned more with protecting the profits and
public image of BP than making the residents of the area whole.
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