Confirmed: BP says it reached $7.8 billion deal

MSNBC confirms my sources.
NEW ORLEANS — BP and a committee representing 100,000 fishermen, sickened cleanup workers and others suing over the 2010 Gulf oil spill have reached an estimated $7.8 billion agreement to settle the lawsuit, company officials said late Friday.

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