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Federal prosecutors dropped manslaughter charges against BP Plcs two top employees on the doomed oil rig that blew up in 2010.
The bulk of the money from BPs record settlement will go to the five states along the Gulf of Mexico whose shores were blackened in the 2010 oil spill.
BP Plc acted with gross negligence in setting off the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a federal judge ruled.