Posted on July 2, 2013 at 10:30 am by Harry R. Weber in Gulf oil spill Comments() | E-mail | Print David Rainey, a former BP vice president during the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, leaves Federal Court after being arraigned on obstruction of a federal investigation in New Orleans in November 2012. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton) A five-month trial delay is being proposed for a former BP executive charged with lying to federal officials about the amount of oil that was flowing from the company’s undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Federal prosecutors and lawyers for David Rainey of Houston filed a joint motion this week in federal court in New Orleans seeking to postpone the...
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