The US Department of Justice this week announced that Halliburton will plead guilty to charges of destroying evidence related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Houston-based oil company will pay a statutory fine of $200,000 — the maximum allowed under the law — and has agreed to three years of probation.
The April 2010 drilling rig explosion killed 11 people and left miles of shoreline drenched in oil, marking the largest offshore oil spill in US history. BP owned a 65 percent stake in the Macondo oil well that ruptured, and Halliburton was responsible for sealing it with cement. BP finally stemmed the flow of oil on July 15th, 2010 — 85 days after it first erupted.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/26/4558950/halliburton-pleads-guilty-destroying-evidence-in-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill
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