Hayward: I've Been 'Demonized'

If he thinks his treatment here is bad, he better hope he doesn’t screw up as badly at his new gig in Russia: Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward says he’s been “demonized,” and that he might be “too busy” to attend congressional hearings about the Gulf oil spill. He’s standing by the company that jettisoned him, too, saying that BP has been a “model of corporate social responsibility.” He said he left BP because, “I believe for it to move on in the United States it needs new leadership and it is for that reason I have stood down as the CEO." Incoming CEO Robert Dudley, meanwhile, said the “very complex” accident was the fault of “a number of companies.”