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• Shrimper pleads guilty to felony wire fraud in $357K Deepwater Horizon settlement

  By Kyle Barnett | Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014 @ 11:01am

  NEW ORLEANS – A Slidell-based shrimper has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud concerning false tax documents he filed in order to secure a Deepwater Horizon oil spill worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

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• Another fraudulent claim identified by special master in BP case; investigator requests $240K repayment

  By Kyle Barnett | Tuesday, Oct 14, 2014 @ 10:04am

  NEW ORLEANS – An Alabama man has been ordered to return hundreds of thousands of dollars he received in an alleged scheme to defraud the claims program in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill program.

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  BP claimant ordered by court to return $357K in fraudulent claims

  By Kyle Barnett | Tuesday, May 6, 2014 @ 12:12pm

  NEW ORLEANS – U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has ordered a Louisiana commercial shrimper to return a $357,000 claim involving the 2010 Deepwater Horizon.

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  Federal judge OKs CSB probe of Deepwater Horizon disaster

  By Chris Dickerson | Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 @ 10:03am

  HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) — A federal judge has dismissed Transocean’s request to dismiss subpoenas for records of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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• Huge win for Transocean removes the company from liability for underwater oil spill

  By Kyle Barnett | Thursday, Feb 23, 2012 @ 10:00am

  Barbier NEW ORLEANS - U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled in favor of a Transocean motion relieving the Deepwater Horizon rig owner from liability for oil spilled from the Macondo wellhead itself.

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• Judge to look at how liability act applies to Transocean

  By Steve Korris | Tuesday, Oct 19, 2010 @ 10:00am

  Barbier U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier must decide how the Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 applies to rig owner Transocean in proceedings over the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill.

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