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BP pleads guilty to 14 criminal charges and is fined a record $4.5 billion in a partial settlement with the federal government over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 5 million barrels that killed 11 oil rig workers. Two senior BP supervisors are indicted on manslaughter charges.
Oil giant BP will plead guilty to 11 felony counts and pay $4.5 billion to settle criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon well disaster. Host Steve Curwood discusses the decision with William Reilly, co-chair of the Presidential Commission that investigated the disaster.