BP stopped the oil from billowing into the Gulf on Thursday, for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.
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And the Coast Guard will also hear from BP and Transocean managers who were on the rig at the time of the blast.
The company's case is hardly helped by the fact that Robert Kaluza, BP's well manager on board the rig at the time of the disaster, has declined to testify in front of an investigation into it, pleading his fifth-amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
Over the past week damning evidence has emerged, in documents detailing a settlement between Barclays and regulators in America and Britain, that employees at the bank and at several other unnamed banks tried to rig the number time and again over a period of at least five years.