The Justice Department is considering filing the first criminal charges in its probe of the Gulf oil spill, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The charges could be brought against employees of British oil giant BP, including U.S.-based engineers, with the investigation focusing on whether they provided false information to regulators regarding the risks at the Gulf well, according to the Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter.
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An explosion on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in 2010 killed 11 workers and led to a massive oil spill of more than 4 billion barrels. It was the worst offshore oil spill ever in the U.S., prompting BP to set up a $20 billion compensation fund for those affected by the disaster.
The charges, which could be brought early next year, carry penalties of a fine and up to five years in prison, according to the report. The Justice Department has still not made a final decision on whether to go forward with the charges.
Other countries would have already carried out the executions.
Except for Japan and Korea where those responsible would have the good grace to kill themselves.
that would be your government
Think about this ...
It is "political" so Gulf residents will vote for Dumb-ocrats ... more deception to make the uninformed think that Mary Landreau and the Kenyan really give a rats tush about them.
Here is a "political" suggestion to the GOP.
Begin an IMMEDIATE advertising campaign that is maintained for the next 11 months.
Saturate the airwaves with ...
"A VOTE for Obama is a VOTE for ERIC HOLDER"
Enhance it any way you like ... Mark Rich, Sue states over ObamaCare & protecting their own borders ..., Sue S. Carolina over voter ID, try KSM in NY, ... the list goes ON & ON & ON ...
Holder is the most incompetent Attorney General in my lifetime ... (born before Pearl Harbor) . . . he HATES the Constitution!
BUT, he is completely LOYAL to the socialist Muslim occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Since you Cannot argue on the merits, the DUMB-ocrat alternative is ... AS ALWAYS ...
KILL THE MESSENGER !
Look in the mirror, Antonio ...
They mean 4 million barrels.
Every fourth commercial is an advert for LA/MS/TX/FL with this cheesy "Cajun" music that about drives me up a wall, expecting to see an advert for Chili's or Applebee's.
Anyway, the adverts are all being pumped by...guess who? BP. We're talking at LEAST 500 million dollars worth of adverts, because they run at all hours, even primetime. Telling everyone, "Y'all come on down, beaches're great!"
Uh-huh. Just make sure you stay to the beaches in front of the hotels, which get groomed every single night by tractors. If you try to go to any of the PUBLIC beaches out on the barrier islands, you'll get a gun barrel shoved up your nose by a very fat, very sweaty, very MEAN "security guard" that's been hired by BP to "protect the public".
From what, I wonder? What could be so absolutely horrible on those PUBLIC beaches that we have to have some fat, stinky, seal-team wannabe to shoo us away at gunpoint? Maybe some of us should bring a nice, John Deere 6R and a 3710 moldboard to get down nice and deep into that sand, see what's down there. You'll need support folks to meet you on the beach with Jetskis, since you'll have to give the video over to them once the cops show up.
Sound like somethin' folks might be interested in?
Not sure if the rest of your comments are true or not, but it wouldn't surprise me if they are.
Kinda makes y'wonder, doesn't it? Bout' jus' how many in law enforcement are all too well aware that he an' th' other security guards is down there? Mmmmmm, local sheriff, maybe? Water constables? Dept. of Fish and Game? Coast Guard, too?
*cough* Department of Homeland Security *COUGH-COUGH*
Like I said. You'll need some folks on the beach with Jetskis and maybe a few fast Zodiacs to get the video out of there, in several different directions, with people waiting on shore at different places, waiting to upload that video.
Because if someone starts shooting anything other than cameras, it's gonna be a VERY short fight.
The DoJ needs to get harsh on companies when they hide data like this and BANKRUPT THEM! That is the absolute only way that these companies are going to realize "Hey, we do not 'fudge the numbers' on anything.... we release the exact data we have!"
Only by hitting them in their pocketbooks will they get the message.