BP to pay $4-billion criminal fine in Deepwater Horizon spill

Two supervisors for the oil company have been charged with manslaughter in the rig explosion that killed 11 workers. The firm could pay still more in civil claims.Laying the blame for the deaths of 11 oil rig workers in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and Gulf of Mexico spill on BP, federal prosecutors announced Thursday that two BP supervisors had been charged with manslaughter and the company would pay a $4-billion criminal fine, the largest in U.S. history.

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