# And you thought Halliburton was done with doing Pittable things? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329 "2013-09-20T17:43:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329/1 "2013-09-20T17:43:05Z")
Apparently they played some role in causing the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, or at least in covering up something about out. Story [here](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/anthony-badalamenti-halliburton_n_3955378.html). > [@](#): > > NEW ORLEANS — A former Halliburton manager was charged Thursday with destroying evidence following BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a case that coincides with a guilty plea to a related charge by the Houston-based oilfield services company. > > Anthony Badalamenti, who had been the cementing technology director for Halliburton Energy Services Inc., was charged in federal court with instructing two other employees to delete data during a post-spill review of the cement job on BP’s blown-out well. > > Halliburton was BP PLC’s cement contractor on the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf in April 2010, killing 11 workers and triggering the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. > > Badalamenti, 61, of Katy, Texas, is charged in a bill of information, which typically signals that a defendant is cooperating with prosecutors. His attorney, Tai H. Park, declined to comment. Badalamenti is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 30. > > Also on Thursday, a federal judge accepted a plea agreement that calls for Halliburton to pay a $200,000 fine for a misdemeanor stemming from Badalamenti’s alleged conduct. ☹ Poor Halliburton! A second’s income, shot to Hell! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329/2 "2013-09-20T19:21:53Z")
Cool story bro. ---
**Author:** ![get\_lives](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@get\_lives](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/get_lives)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329/3 "2013-09-20T20:11:11Z")
This is old news. I heard about Halliburton’s role in building the Deepwater Horizon about a month after the explosion, on NPR. It’s so obvious that the mainstream media is bought and paid for by corporations, when the only notification that the public gets of this is a 5 second mention at the tail end of an interview on NPR. Until this Huffington Post story, 3.5 years after the incident, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329/4 "2013-09-20T21:03:44Z")
> [@get\_lives](#): > > This is old news. Agree. Halliburton’s involvement in the Horizon incident has been well understood for years. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-halliburton-was-done-with-doing-pittable-things/669329/5 "2013-09-20T21:07:21Z")
If Haliburton were a person, your parents would forbid you to associate with them.