Federal charges filed against ex-BP engineer in spill

Former BP engineer Kurt Mix faces two counts of obstruction of justice on suspicion of deleting text messages about the oil flow rate after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.HOUSTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled the first criminal charges in its investigation of the 2010 BP oil spill: two counts of obstruction of justice filed against a former BP engineer accused of destroying records describing the rate at which oil was flowing from the broken well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

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