Gulf Oil Spill to Drag Goldman Sachs Into Trading Scandal?

By John O’Sullivan

The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is allegedly linked to a Goldman Sachs mega sell off of its shares in BP energy conglomerate just days before.

As BP fails repeatedly in desperate attempts to cap a massive oil leak offshore at ‘Deep Water Horizon’ in the Gulf of Mexico, suspicion grows over certain ‘coincidences.’

Is there really evidence here to support claims of a sinister conspiracy? Financiers Goldman Sachs not only fortuitously dumped millions of its shares in the British oil company, but has strong financial links to the chemical clean up firm tackling the disaster. Moreover, the Wall Street giant’s new chairman was boss of BP only three months before.

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