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**CAF Note: Just when you think that you can not be shocked by the state of lawlessness in the United States, just when you think you have seen it all, something even more shocking occurs. Words escape me, but I am sure you will know what I mean.**
By Harry R. Weber
Halliburton, the oil field services firm that supplied the cement for the undersea well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, pleaded guilty Thursday to destroying evidence and was ordered to service three years’ probation and pay a $200,000 fine.
“Does the company wish to plead guilty because it is in fact guilty?” U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo asked.
