Halliburton admits to destroying evidence in wake of Gulf oil spill

The US Department of Justice this week announced that Halliburton will plead guilty to charges of destroying evidence related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Houston-based oil company will pay a statutory fine of $200,000 -- the maximum allowed under the law -- and has agreed to three years of probation. The April 2010 drilling rig explosion killed 11 people and left miles of shoreline drenched in oil, marking the largest offshore oil spill in US history. BP ow...