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Former Halliburton employee, Anthony Badalamenti, pleads guilty to destroying evidence after Deepwater Horizon explosion

October 21, 2013

(CBS/AP) - A former Halliburton manager pleaded guilty Tuesday to destroying evidence in the aftermath of the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that caused a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

Anthony Badalamenti, 62, faces a maximum sentence of 1 year in prison and a $100,000 fine after his guilty plea in U.S. District Court to one misdemeanor count of destruction of evidence. Prosecutors said Badalamenti, who was the cementing technology director for Halliburton Energy Services Inc., BP's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon, instructed two Halliburton employees to delete data during a post-spill review of the cement job on BP's blown-out Macondo well.

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