After the April 2010 explosion of an oil rig in the Gulf of
Mexico, the first charges have been filed. The explosion lead to 4.9 million
barrels of crude oil pour into the gulf over a period of three month.
Eventually they put a cap on the leak located about a mile under, but
the consequences were huge. 11 men died as a result of the explosion
and the rig sank after the explosion. A formed BP engineer, Kurt Mix, was
arrested in Texas. He is accused of two counts of intentionally destroying
evidence requested by authorities. One of accusations is that he deleted
messages focusing on work to the stem the oil flow. "The deleted
texts, some of which were recovered forensically, included sensitive internal
BP information collected in real time as the Top Kill operation was occurring,
which indicated that Top Kill was failing," the Justice Department
said. "By the time Mix deleted those texts, he had received numerous
legal hold notices requiring him to preserve such data and had been
communicating with a criminal defense lawyer in connection with the pending
grand jury investigation of the Deepwater Horizon disaster," the
department said. Mix could face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison
and a fine of up to $250,000 for each count if he is convicted.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/24/us/gulf-oil-spill/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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