BP Well-Site Managers' Oil-Spill Manslaughter Case Dropped
- Move in Gulf oil spill case is latest setback for prosecutors
- Two men accused of ignoring multiple warning signals in 2010
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Federal prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges against BP Plc’s two top employees on the oil rig that blew up in 2010, the latest setback for investigators probing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
The dismissal of the most serious charges against Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, who supervised testing on the Macondo well, means the two won’t stand trial for the deaths of 11 men killed in the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon. Kaluza, 65, and Vidrine, 68, were among four BP workers to face charges in the aftermath of the spill.