The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 3, 2010 BP Faces Insider Trading Probe ------------------------------ BP faces an investigation into whether its employees profited illegally from the Gulf of Mexico spill. US securities regulators are investigating potential insider trading in shares of BP, including by BP employees. At issue is whether people illegally profited from trading on non-public information at BP. .