BP to Ask Judge to Suspend Oil Spill Settlement Payments
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BP Plc will ask a federal judge in New Orleans today to temporarily halt payments from the court-supervised program administering its settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The payments awarded may be “tainted by improprieties” and should be suspended while Louis Freeh, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, probes possible misconduct in the claims program, BP said in court filings.