Kurt mix bp

The resolution of this case is a vindication of Kurt Mix. The Department of Justice today walked away from any allegation that Kurt ever acted to obstruct justice. This is a case that never should have been brought, against a man whose service in response to the Deepwater Horizon spill should have been celebrated, not prosecuted. He was called in to the front lines of the response after the explosion occurred, and he worked tirelessly to help stop the spill.

His efforts, as part of a team of dedicated engineers, played a critical role in shutting off the oil flow. The Department of Justice mounted a 4-year investigation and prosecution, costing millions of taxpayer dollars. Kurt accepted this resolution—acknowledging deletions he had admitted from the start—in order to protect himself and his family from any further entanglement with the criminal justice system.

Government prosecutors agreed to drop felony obstruction of justice charges against former BP engineer Kurt Mix today.

The total misjudgment and mismanagement of this case by the Department of Justice should alarm everyone who cares about an impartial and professional legal system. This case is the new poster-child for what prosecutors should not do. In I helped stop the BP oil spill after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig left a damaged well spilling crude directly into the Gulf of Mexico.

After years of prosecution and millions of taxpayer dollars, the U. Department of Justice is now in its pursuit of felony convictions of BP employees. Read the rest of the article.

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Key Facts: Kurt was an engineer on the front lines of the Macondo well explosion: he worked around the clock to help stop the oil spill, ultimately succeeding with his fellow engineers in permanently shutting off the flow of oil. The vendor chose not to collect the phone. Over a year after Kurt and his colleagues had successfully stopped the oil spill, Kurt suddenly became the subject of a federal obstruction of justice investigation after he disclosed that he had not taken any special efforts to preserve text messages on his iPhone and that it was possible he had deleted work-related text messages.