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To: Land Shark who wrote (929271)	4/5/2016 9:01:45 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579785

You STILL haven't read the first link. Legal journalist at Forbes Robert W. Wood notes that just $5.5 billion of the settlement "is indicated explicitly as a penalty under the Clean Water Act," and it is only this portion of the settlement which is not tax-deductible. However, "the federal government could have received as much as a $13.7 billion penalty under that Act based on a recent finding by a New Orleans judge that the spill was the result of 'gross negligence,'" he argues