BP can't stop spills of oil or money.

• Author: Easterbrook, Gregg
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

BP is being bilked in the distribution of Deepwater Horizon settlement money--poetic justice for an arrogant company that killed workers and thumbed its nose at the environment. It is a double dose of poetic justice that for all its power and pounds sterling BP was too dumb to realize that Louisiana's Napoleonic-rooted civil code is notoriously crooked. The company freely agreed to a distribution procedure that was just asking the Louisiana bar to pick BP's pocket. Other...