Ex-BP engineer charged with destroying Deepwater evidence
Source: Irish Examiner
Ex-BP engineer charged with destroying Deepwater evidence
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 07:31 AM
An ex-BP engineer has been charged with destroying evidence tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Fifty-year -old drilling engineer Kurt Mix has been charged with two criminal counts of obstruction of justice for trying to destroy hundreds of text messages on his iPhone that related to the incident.
The messages, some of which were recovered by investigators, showed BP knew that the leak was more than three times larger than its official estimates.
Mix is the first person to be charged in connection with the disaster that killed 11 men and sent nearly five million barrels of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/ex-bp-engineer-charged-with-destroying-deepwater-evidence-548889.html
Selatius
(20,441 posts)We all suspected there was an effort to hide evidence. This is just a confirmation of that fear. I'll pass it along my Facebook account. Most of my friends live here on the coast.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)That would be better.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)groundloop
(11,521 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 25, 2012, 09:45 AM - Edit history (1)
I'll bet this guy is now talking and has revealed who told him to destroy evidence.
edited for spelling oops