March 09, 2015
David Rainey, a former BP PLC executive accused of lying about how much oil was spilling after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, urged a judge on Friday to bar the company's guilty plea from his trial, saying it can't be used as evidence against him and would unfairly prejudice a jury.
January 16, 2015
David Rainey, a former BP PLC executive accused of lying about how much oil was spilling after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, urged a Louisiana federal judge on Thursday to bar two government witnesses from testifying at his upcoming trial.
November 17, 2014
Prosecutors pushed back Friday against motions filed by former BP senior executive David Rainey seeking to knock out charges that he lied about how much oil was escaping from a well damaged by the Deepwater Horizon explosion, among other things, because government questions were too ambiguous to trigger criminal liability.
September 19, 2014
A Louisiana federal jury Friday updated its criminal indictment against an ex-BP PLC executive accused of lying about how much oil was escaping from a well damaged by the Deepwater Horizon explosion, after the Fifth Circuit revived a charge of obstruction of Congress.
July 02, 2013
Federal prosecutors agreed Monday to push back by five months the trial of a former BP PLC executive on charges that he lied about how much oil was escaping from a well damaged by the Deepwater Horizon explosion, after the government recently sprung a superseding indictment.
June 19, 2013
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday filed a superseding indictment in Louisiana federal court, seeking to shore up an allegation that BP PLC's second-in-command during the Deepwater Horizon disaster knew of a congressional investigation he allegedly obstructed, a claim that was previously dismissed as too vague.
May 20, 2013
A Louisiana federal judge on Monday dropped an obstruction charge from the indictment of the former BP PLC executive who was second-in-command during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, finding the government didn't allege he knew of the congressional investigation he was charged with obstructing.
May 08, 2013
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that a Steptoe & Johnson LLP attorney defending David Rainey, BP PLC's second-in-command during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, may have a conflict of interest and asked the defense to disclose some of its expected testimony in the case.
March 05, 2013
A former BP PLC executive urged a Louisiana federal court Monday to toss charges that he misled Congress about the amount of oil gushing from the Macondo well during the Deepwater Horizon disaster, saying that the government's obstruction charges fail as a matter of law.
December 11, 2012
A federal judge agreed Monday to push back the criminal trial of a former BP PLC executive accused of lying to Congress and law enforcement officials about the amount of oil gushing from the Macondo well during the worst of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.