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US lawmaker apologized to BP CEO Tony Howard for ‘$20 Billion Shakedown’

Posted by admin on June 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

A senior US lawmaker apologized Wednesday to BP chief Tony Hayward for what he described as a White House “shakedown” that led the firm to create a 20-billion-dollar Gulf of Mexico oil spill fund.
“I’m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,” Republican Representative Joe Barton told Hayward as the embattled energy [...]

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