Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Federal judge accepts BP guilty plea, approves $4 billion oil spill settlement
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] on Tuesday accepted a plea agreement [DOJ press release] between British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] for the company's role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder]. US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced that BP pleaded guilty to 14 criminal counts, including felony manslaughter arising out of the deaths of 11 crewmen,...
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