BP Employees Face Manslaughter Charges In Gulf Spill
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 12:54 PM EST
Two BP (BP) employees are expected to be charged with manslaughter in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that claimed 11 lives, and set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The British oil giant agreed to pay a record $4.5 billion fine related to the massive spill and to plead guilty to a host of crimes, including obstruction of justice for lying to Congress about the amount of oil spewing out of the