Former BP engineer charged with destroying evidence in Gulf oil spill

Guardian: The US justice department has made the first arrest in connection with the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, charging a former engineer with destroying evidence relating to the amount of oil gushing from BP's stricken well. Two years after the 20 April 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, the justice department said it had charged Kurt Mix with obstruction of justice for allegedly deleting hundreds of text messages relating to BP's early unsuccessful efforts to plug the well. Mix, 50, was a...

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