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In an e-mail written six days before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, a BP engineer called the well a "nightmare." The e-mail was released Monday by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and it's one of many company documents describing the risky, cost-cutting decisions that preceded the disaster.

Citing weak evidence, a federal judge on Friday acquitted two former employees of fallen financier Allen Stanford on charges they illegally shredded thousands of company documents to hinder the federal probe into an alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme.