July 22, 2010 -
By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune, and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica A former New Orleans resident was charged last week with federal hate crimes for his alleged role in a racially motivated shooting of three black men in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
July 12, 2010 -
By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica BP has long maintained that it will pay all "legitimate" claims for damage caused by the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But company data shows that while it has written checks for roughly half of the overall claims it has received -- most of which address property damage and the loss of income -- it has not made payments on any of the more than 1,100 claims that have been filed for damages caused by "bodily injury."
May 19, 2010 -
By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica A whistleblower filed a lawsuit this week to force the federal government to halt operations at another massive BP oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, alleging that BP never reviewed critical engineering designs for the operation and is therefore risking another catastrophic accident that could "dwarf" the company's Deepwater Horizon spill. The allegations about BP's Atlantis platform were first made last year, but
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