Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Oil Spill Evidence…but Corporations Don’t Go to Jail

(Before It's News)

By Noel Brinkerhoff

David Lesar, Halliburton CEO

Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which will result in the company paying a nominal fine but no officials going to jail.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Halliburton with one count of destruction of evidence. As a result of pleading guilty, the corporation will pay $200,000, the maximum allowable under the law, and be subject to three years of probation.

Halliburton also agreed to continue its cooperation in the government’s criminal investigation of the accident that killed 11 rig workers on April 20, 2010, and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Following the blowout of the undersea well, Halliburton tried to shift the blame to BP, the British oil company, saying that Halliburton recommended the well include 21 metal centralizers to stabilize the cementing. BP chose to use six instead.

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