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I don't know what else it is when the most powerful government in the world (for a while longer at least) puts your corporation under criminal investigation, the POTUS goes on tv and says he's going to kick that corporation's ass, then that government and that POTUS "asks" that corporation for a "voluntary" $20B starter fund -- all the while there are laws and procedures in place to determine these very issues??

Of course it's a shakedown.

It’s not a shakedown. I don’t think you could find a court in any of the counties/parishes adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico where this spill is happening that would not find BP guilty of criminal negligence.

They had over 700 write-ups over a short period of time while most of their competitors combined didn’t even top 35. It was well known that they were an outlier in the industry. They knew that Deepwater would be a problem in February and decided to not tell anyone because it would have blown a hole in their whole “responsible green company” BS.

If I were on a jury I’d vote guilty for criminal negligence. Of course, I’m from the area actually getting affected by the spill and so my bias makes me nowhere near as qualified to speak on it as someone out in Montana who won’t be affected at all. Right?