Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence

NEW ORLEANS | Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:33pm EDT

(Reuters) - Halliburton Co pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges of destroying evidence, stemming from its role in the 2010 BP oil disaster that killed 11 men and sent more than 4 million barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

A former Halliburton cementing technology director in Texas also was charged on Thursday with destroying evidence.

U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo in New Orleans accepted the company's guilty plea from Halliburton legal counsel Marc Mukasey, imposed the agreed-upon maximum fine of $200,000 and placed the company on a three-year probation term.

Mukasey did not make a statement on the company's behalf.

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[juajen]

1. Oh my goodness, that $200,000 will break them!

[CrispyQ]

2. $200k

[immoderate]

3. Kind of -- getting away with murder.

--imm

[msongs]

4. once again no jail time. was jail time even asked for? nt

[Nihil]

5. What a crock of corrupt lying shit.

Those fuckers at Halliburton must be wetting themselves laughing.



No punishment to the company, no punishment to the individuals and
the complicit media are there to maintain the fiction that the Deepwater
Horizon foul-up was just down to BP ("the 2010 BP oil disaster&quot
rather than the Halliburton fuck-up that caused it all.