This is also probably Emeril's fault.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, in the past few weeks
this one spot has yielded 1.5 million pounds of “oily material” – a
designation that includes oil products as well as associated shell, sand
and water.
And that’s in addition to 1.79 million pounds already collected from
Fourchon, by far the largest share of the 8.9 million pounds recovered
from all Louisiana beaches in the past two years.
This is turning out to be kind of a big news day for BP. They've also racked up
their first Macondo-related conviction.
Shortly after beginning its third day of deliberations, a federal jury
Wednesday morning convicted BP engineer Kurt Mix of one count of
obstructing justice.
Mix was the target of the government’s first criminal prosecution
resulting from the 2010 BP oil spill for allegedly obstructing justice
by deleting a string of text messages and voice mails. On Tuesday,
jurors told U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. they could not agree
unanimously on the two obstruction counts, each of which carries a
maximum prison term of 20 years. Duval sent the jury back into
deliberations after reading the “Allen charge,” a last-resort measure
meant to push a jury to reach a verdict.
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