Justice Dept. Arrests Former BP Engineer in BP Oil Spill Case

mjnc · Apr 26, 2012

Although many people have forgotten about this, the damage and ill effects will probably last for decades.

Former BP Engineer Arrested in BP Oil Spill Case

Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of
deleting more than 300 text messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude than the company was
telling the public at the time.
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Will BP Arrest Change Taxpayer Sentiment About BP's Billion Dollar Losses?

Shortly after the historic spill, BP took losses related to the tragedy for tax purposes, reducing its tax bill by $13
billion. The result of those losses? The company paid no federal income taxes in 2010. It was a bitter pill to swallow for
many Gulf Coast taxpayers who found out that their compensatory payments from BP would be taxable.
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Aren't the oil companies still getting Billions of dollars in subsidies from the U.S. government?? rolleyes :confused

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Justice Dept. Arrests Former BP Engineer in BP Oil Spill Case

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