NEW ORLEANS — A day of reckoning arrived for BP on Thursday as the oil giant agreed to plead guilty to a raft of criminal charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in a settlement with the government over the deadly 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Three BP employees were also charged, two of them with manslaughter.
BP agrees to pay $4.5 billion in Gulf oil spill settlement
Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 7:16 p.m. CST
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