Should BP face criminal charges?
2nd June Update: US Federal authorities have opened a into the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the BP oil spill according to Attorney-General Eric Holder. And President Obama has said
As a result of this disaster, lives have been lost. Businesses have been decimated. Communities that had already known great hardship now face the spectre of sudden and painful economic dislocations. We owe all those who've been harmed, as well as future generations, a full and vigorous accounting of the events that led to what has now become the worst oil spill in US history.
Original Post: The Gulf of Mexico oil leak is now officially the and its latest attempt to stop the leak has failed. US prosecutors are now a criminal .
On this YingYang Sodwoski says
In China...some CEO's are put to death for such negligence.But KarlMarx compares it to the banking crisis saying
it's simply amazing and stupid that the Department of Justice would go after BP for criminality when there hasn't been one bankster indictment to date. The damage they have done to all facets of economic and social life is many times more than BP could ever hope to achieve.
Do you think BP should face criminal charges?