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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Wed Apr 25, 2012, 02:49 AM Apr 2012

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

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Ex-BP engineer charged with destroying Deepwater evidence (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2012 OP

I doubt this will get much airplay on the local news here. I live on the MS coast where it happened. Selatius Apr 2012 #1

You can call your local news station. Ash_F Apr 2012 #3

Kick EFerrari Apr 2012 #2

Life in a box is sufficient! Bastard! lonestarnot Apr 2012 #4

I can't believe he was acting without instructions from above groundloop Apr 2012 #5

Selatius

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1. I doubt this will get much airplay on the local news here. I live on the MS coast where it happened.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Apr 25, 2012, 03:00 AM

Apr 2012

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.