From the comments, Tasha pointed me to this article about a judge's decision to require BP CEO Lord John Browne to to give a video deposition and be available to testify at trial in a lawsuit brought by victims of the March 23, 2005 Texas City refinery explosion that killed 15 workers and injured 170. Browne had resisted the deposition, claiming that he didn't know anything more than people closer to the process knew.

But plaintiffs' attorney Brent Coon wasn't buying it, arguing that Browne and BP Global Refining Director John Manzoni

have information about "how that plant operated and the problems associated with that plant. It goes back to budget cuts Manzoni and Browne ordered that compromised plant maintenance."

And here's the quote that Tasha liked:

"If President Clinton could be deposed in a harassment case, we think Lord Browne could be deposed in an accident at one of his plants that killed 15 and injured more than 100 others," Coon said.

Indeed.

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