The Justice Department today entered the litigation fray over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, suing a division of the oil giant BP PLC and eight other defendants for alleged safety and occupational violations.
The suit filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana comes amid an ongoing criminal investigation of the oil spill, which followed an explosion and fire in April that killed 11 workers.
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