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TRUTH Gusher: Jeanne Pascal Spills It on BP, Judge Stanley Sporkin, and the Disaster in the Gulf
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Pascal Spills It on BP, Sporkin, and the Disaster in the Gulf

Russell Mokhiber
24 Corporate Crime Reporter 25(10), June 18, 2010

EXCERPT...

Up until three months ago, when she retired, Jeanne Pascal was an attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Her beat: debarment of BP.

SNIP...

After all BP’s rap sheet was long and nasty – three convictions, an $84 million OSHA fine, and a deferred prosecution agreement.

Last year, Pascal was inclined to debar BP – strip it of its government contracts – because of its repeat violations.

But the Pentagon intervened.

CONTINUED...

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/pascal061810.htm



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  -TRUTH Gusher: Jeanne Pascal Spills It on BP, Judge Stanley Sporkin, and the Disaster in the Gulf Octafish  Jun-18-10 01:58 PM   #0 
  - This record needs to be publicized more broadly.  northoftheborder   Jun-18-10 02:05 PM   #1 
  - EPA Officials Weigh Sanctions Against BP’s U.S. Operations  Octafish   Jun-18-10 02:21 PM   #2 
     - I 'shared' the propublica site on fb  HillbillyBob   Jun-18-10 02:53 PM   #8 
  - OT: Maybe it should be renamed the Gulf of British Petroleum?  kenny blankenship   Jun-18-10 02:33 PM   #3 
  - Interesting: They wreck it. They own it.  Octafish   Jun-18-10 02:39 PM   #4 
  - The business of America is business...  blindpig   Jun-18-10 02:39 PM   #5 
  - One of many least favorite quotes from Chairman Pruneface.  Octafish   Jun-18-10 02:46 PM   #6 
     - If not him then another.  blindpig   Jun-18-10 02:50 PM   #7 
        - That oil depletion allowance really ticked off a bunch of conservative oil men.  Octafish   Jun-18-10 03:15 PM   #12 
  - K&R  Jamastiene   Jun-18-10 02:57 PM   #9 
  - How Bush's DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials  Octafish   Jun-18-10 04:16 PM   #16 
     - There is no integrity Octafish..none..there are no two parties..that is an illusion  flyarm   Jun-18-10 10:06 PM   #27 
  - K&R  amborin   Jun-18-10 03:01 PM   #10 
  - Ex-EPA Officials: Why Isn't BP Under Criminal Investigation?  Octafish   Jun-18-10 04:20 PM   #17 
     - exactly! Why isn't BP under criminal investigation? Anything less is unacceptable.  amborin   Jun-18-10 08:33 PM   #23 
  - BP was supplying 80 percent of the fuel going to the U.S. military in Iraq,  G_j   Jun-18-10 03:07 PM   #11 
  - Another aspect of the "special relationship"  kenny blankenship   Jun-18-10 03:57 PM   #15 
  - Our only real ''ally'' is an empire.  Octafish   Jun-18-10 06:13 PM   #20 
  - The could very well lead to our answer.  Jamastiene   Jun-18-10 05:43 PM   #19 
  - I think so nt  G_j   Jun-18-10 06:20 PM   #22 
  - Deserves SHOUTING : "BP was supplying 80 percent of the fuel going to the U.S. military in Iraq"  chill_wind   Jun-18-10 10:41 PM   #28 
  - K&R  me b zola   Jun-18-10 03:49 PM   #13 
  - Judge Sporkin is an interesting person of interest.  Octafish   Jun-18-10 06:18 PM   #21 
     - I heard about that funny email trail: Stanley to Ollie-Stanley to Ollie (North)  robertpaulsen   Jun-19-10 02:10 PM   #42 
  - BP and the Pentagon's Dirty Little Secret  G_j   Jun-18-10 03:55 PM   #14 
  - Get Out of Gulf Free Card  Octafish   Jun-18-10 09:00 PM   #24 
  - you rock  G_j   Jun-19-10 09:00 AM   #33 
     - Sidebar: Afghanistan Mineral Wealth Now Estimated at $3 Trillion  Octafish   Jun-19-10 09:15 AM   #34 
        - K&R  SammyWinstonJack   Jun-19-10 09:46 AM   #35 
  - Kick Ass or Buy Gas? How Taxpayers Are Subsidizing BP’s Disaster Through the Pentagon  Octafish   Jun-19-10 11:14 AM   #38 
  - And the Repubs are tripping all over themselves to apologize to these croporoCrooks  SpiralHawk   Jun-18-10 04:23 PM   #18 
  - I had to stop and watch a member of the U.S. Congress grovel before Big Oil in the Capitol.  Octafish   Jun-18-10 09:20 PM   #25 
  - K&R  highplainsdem   Jun-18-10 09:24 PM   #26 
  - Inspector General to Slam MMS on Spill: Report  Octafish   Jun-19-10 08:42 AM   #31 
  - K & R.  chill_wind   Jun-18-10 10:44 PM   #29 
  - Slick Operator -- How BP Works Washington  Octafish   Jun-19-10 08:59 AM   #32 
     - Too Big To Fail. For national security reasons.  chill_wind   Jun-19-10 12:35 PM   #40 
  - Thank you, octafish!  tango-tee   Jun-18-10 11:03 PM   #30 
  - Fmr. EPA Investigator Scott West: ''BP Told 'It Can Do Whatever It Wants, Won’t Be Held Accountable'  Octafish   Jun-19-10 09:54 AM   #36 
  - K&R!  OmmmSweetOmmm   Jun-19-10 10:49 AM   #37 
  - The Maligning of BP  Octafish   Jun-19-10 11:52 AM   #39 
  - "People who work for BP are afraid of their employer. BP is a very retaliatory company."  moondust   Jun-19-10 12:44 PM   #41 
 

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