Ex-Halliburton manager charged in destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
Source: Associated Press
Ex-Halliburton manager charged in destroying Gulf oil spill evidence
By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
Posted: 09/19/13, 9:58 AM PDT |
NEW ORLEANS — A former Halliburton employee was charged Thursday with destroying evidence following BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Anthony Badalamenti, who had been the cementing technology director for Halliburton Energy Services Inc., was charged in federal court Thursday with instructing two other employees to delete data during a post-spill review of the cement job on BP’s blown-out well.
Halliburton was BP PLC’s cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf in April 2010, killing 11 workers and triggering the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
The 61-year-old Badalamenti of Katy, Texas, is charged in a bill of information, which typically signals that a defendant is cooperating with prosecutors.
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This will continue to be called "The BP Oil Disaster" rather than "The Halliburton Oil Disaster"
even though it was the deliberate business decisions of the latter that caused it.
That's worth a fortune to Halliburton so I'd fully expect a "small token of appreciation"
to make its way to his account.
Will probably get a fine (reduced to "recognise his cooperation"
and a suspended sentence
(which will never need to be activated as he'll never need to work again).
