Monday, August 05, 2013

Halliburton will pay $200,000 for destroying evidence and obstructing justice in the Gulf oil spill that killed 11 people and spilled 5 million barrels of oil (four minutes of revenue)


Is the criminal plea agreement Halliburton struck with the Justice Department on Thursday a good deal for the company?

The terms seemingly marked a setback for the Houston-based oil services giant, which had asserted its innocence in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill that killed 11 people and poured nearly 5 million barrels of oil offshore. Now Halliburton concedes that employees twice erased computer simulations that undercut the company’s argument about the causes of the disaster .... http://refreshingnews99.blogspot.in