Federal prosecutors say Kurt Mix was destroying evidence after he deleted hundreds of text messages between him, a supervisor and a contractor for British Petroleum.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal magistrate has ruled that prosecutors aren't required to provide defense attorneys with more details regarding the charges against a former BP engineer accused of deleting text messages about the company's response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...
Former BP engineer Kurt Mix is accused of deleting about 300 text messages that indicated the company's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well was spewing far more oil than BP was telling the public.