- Halliburton (HAL -0.2%) says the Justice Department has closed its investigation of the company's role related to the Macondo well incident.
- The federal judge accepted the single misdemeanor guilty plea for the unauthorized deletion of a computer record that was created after the well incident; a fine of $200K and three years' probation was imposed. (earlier)
- The DOJ said HAL was cooperative throughout the investigation, which means the government would seem less likely to suspend HAL from securing new federal contracts.