Federal Jury Convicts Former BP Engineer Of Destroying Evidence Related to Gulf Spill

摘要

A former BP Plc senior engineer was found guilty Dec. 18 of destroying evidence sought by the U.S. in a probe of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico well explosion and oil spill (United States v. Mix, E.D. La., No. 12-cr-00171, 12/18/13). A federal jury in New Orleans found the engineer, Kurt Mix, guilty on one of two counts of obstruction of justice. Prosecutors told the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana that Mix deleted from his mobile phone text messages and voice mails related to BP's effort to estimate the size of what turned out to be largest U.S. offshore oil spill.