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Posted: 3:01 PM Feb 3, 2012
Oil SPill Latest: Halliburton Cement Specialist Can Testify
BP execs not happy a man with inside information about the oil spill will be allowed to testify in the upcoming trial.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge will allow a Halliburton
cement specialist at the heart of decisions that led to the blowout
of a BP-owned well in 2010 to testify -- against the wishes of BP.
Jesse Gagliano, who worked on the well's cementing job, was
interviewed by a congressional committee and testified before a
government panel probing the disaster.
But in May 2011, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to be questioned under oath for the litigation. He has been identified as a possible subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation of the disaster.
On Jan. 13, Gagliano agreed to be questioned by civil attorneys.
BP argued against letting Gagliano testify so close to the
trial, claiming it would give Halliburton a strategic advantage.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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