Feds make first arrest in BP oil spill case

NEW ORLEANS – A BP engineer intentionally deleted more than 300 text messages that said the company's efforts to control the Gulf of Mexico oil spill were failing, and that the amount of oil leaking was far more than what the company reported, the Justice Department said Tuesday.


In the first criminal charges related to the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010, the Justice Department arrested Kurt Mix and charged him with two counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence sought by federal authorities, officials announced in a statement.

OH WOW!! I guess better late than never.. but smells of election swaying for Obama..

I would love to see more arrests in this case: simply put, even with ignorance playing a larger role than malice in the chain of stupid events before and after then spill, there should be negligence cases against a lot of BP execs from this... but not enough people actually believe you can delegate authority and not responsibility.

And this was all done to stave off more political pressure from the average Gulf Coast residents that BP claims they are talking to and helping. BP is famous for myths like this. They'll spend more money repairing the damage to their reputation on the media than they ever will trying to help get things back to a better state along the Gulf Coast their oil leak damaged so badly. More corporate greed over looked by this government. BP is no hero and they are not handling this tragedy responsibly either.

Isn't anyone just a little curious why Haliburton, Transocean or the US Federal regulators (who signed-off on everything that was done) aren't being keel-hauled along with BP.

Curious, no?

.... all this does nothing to lower gas prices, just political theater for the next Presidential election..

WHAT!! No arrests of Solyndra Solar for misuse of taxpayers money and possible fraud. The executive got paid before they went belly up and filed bankruptcy.

Looks like the Bamster wanted more oil to be spilled.
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