WASHINGTON – In the movies, they at least would have offered him a last cigarette and a blindfold ahead of facing the Congressional version of a firing squad.
But hapless BP Chief Executive Tony “I’d Like My Life Back” Hayward had no such luck Thursday as he became the juiciest corporate target for lawmakers since the Senate feasted on the arrogant whiz kids of Goldman Sachs earlier this spring.
In his prepared testimony for the hearing of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Hayward was contrite. But he also tried to convey that BP was not solely to blame for the Gulf oil rig blowout that killed 11 workers and triggered the worse environmental disaster in U.S. history.
“I fully grasp the terrible reality of the situation,” Hayward said, but “this is a complex accident caused by an unprecedented combination of failures.”
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