Ex-Halliburton Manager Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-Halliburton Manager Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 1:14pm
by Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former Halliburton manager pleaded guilty Tuesday to destroying evidence in the aftermath of the deadly rig explosion that spawned BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Anthony Badalamenti, 62, of Katy, Texas, faces a maximum sentence of 1 year in prison and a $100,000 fine after his guilty plea in U.S. District Court to one misdemeanor count of destruction of evidence. His sentencing by U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey is set for Jan. 21.

Badalamenti was the cementing technology director for Halliburton Energy Services Inc., BP's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Prosecutors said he instructed two Halliburton employees to delete data during a post-spill review of the cement job on BP's blown-out Macondo well.

Last month, a federal judge accepted a separate plea agreement calling for Halliburton to pay a $200,000 fine for a misdemeanor stemming from Badalamenti's conduct. Halliburton also agreed to be on probation for three years and to make a $55 million contribution to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, but that payment was not a condition of the deal.


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[Burf-_-]

1. SHOCK !!! .....

and awe..... or ... maybe not.

[pikkel]

2. He pled guilty to a MISDEMEANOR . . .

. . . A FUCKING MISDEMEANOR?????

[reddread]

3. He should have raped somebody instead

they certainly needed a fall guy, though.
bet the perks are nice.

[OnyxCollie]

4. K&R. nt

[Nihil]

5. Crooked piece of shit will get a good payment for that.

He saved his employer literally billions and billions of dollars by deliberately destroying
the evidence of their culpability in the GoM tragedy.

Piece of shit should be fed crude oil every day until he dies.

[Volaris]

6. No seriously, when can we start prosecuting Corporations like the "Persons" they claim to be?

If you or I had done that in a misdemeanor drug possession case, a year in jail is the LEAST we would be looking at, and these guys helped destroy an ecosystem the size of fucking TEXAS.

I get that vengeance is a large part of what we humans think of as Justice (and no it probably shouldn't be that way, but since it is); can we start using it to our fucking ADVANTAGE once in a while?

[davidpdx]

7. I don't agree with the death penalty

but the end of Fargo sure comes to mind. That was the best part of the whole movie.

[Nihil]

8. I was thinking of a different scene ...

... one from "Quantum of Solace" ...