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It's Official: BP Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter
Tuesday, January 29, 2013    
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Judge accepts deal, despite objections from victims' families

(NEWSER– Corporations are people, my friend, and that means they can commit manslaughter. After listening to testimony from relatives of the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a federal judge today approved BP's plea deal, allowing the oil giant to plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges, the AP reports. BP will pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties.

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