i asked him directly, i said, strong storms are pounding new orleans at this hour with heavy are y all doing criminal rain up into mississippi and histories and background checks alabama, as well. sometimes that helps with the on these people? heat, but not really. and his answer reply was, no, because it s still scorching out we re not. there. hot temperatures through much of i said, you re kidding me? he said, no. the mid south once again. the heat does not want to seem he said, there are so many of to let up. and you can see them, we were told to do drug i like the way everybody in screens and that was it. atlanta tells me it s unusually and i said, well, that s not hot this year. it really is. good at all are y. whatever. sure. and long-lasting, too. so this is what it feels like right now, speaking of atlanta, reporter: but you actually recommended they get criminal background checks on their 101 degrees, same in birmingham. employees. yes, i did. and i told them w
don t have anything to do with them anymore. miller environmental group, which oversaw the cleanup and hired aerotek did not return our phone calls. then bp, which was paying for the beach cleanups, told us in a statement it normally checks its own employees but quote this was not done for all contractors in this response. the responsibility lies with the employing company for their own staff. the requirement on subcontractors to bp s contractors is one further step beyond bp s scope of control. the buck ultimately stops with bp. it was their site. reporter: robertson was arrested and he was then charged with sexual battery and failure to register as a sex offender. he tells police the sex was consensual and he is held on a $5,000 sbond sitting in jail. yes, he s in jail, but you got a victim here.
that for them. we would do the background checks for them. and they said no. reporter: robertson worked for a company called aerotek that hired workers to remove oil from the beaches. give me a couple of minutes. so i m not going to shut the door and never see you again? reporter: so we waited. but they only slipped us a note through the door referring us to the corporate headquarters. did you realize you were hiring people who are registered sex offenders? thank you, ma am. reporter: this is when the blame game begins. first we spoke with the general council for aerotek by phone who says aerotek wasn t the one who decided not to do background checks. we are not liable for anything that happens. once we deliver the people to be supervised by our client, we don t have anything to do with them anymore. miller environmental group, which oversaw the cleanup and hired aerotek did not return our phone calls. then, bp, which was paying for
disaster response team to begins. first, we spoke with the general pakistan. i m talking with a man leading counsel for aerotek by phone who the effort, joining me live from says they weren t the ones who islamabad, the capital. decided not to do background when we come back, we re going checks. quote, we are not liable for globe trekking. of let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. anything that happens. once we deliver the people to be supervised by our client, we don t have anything to do with them anymore. miller environmental group, which oversaw the clean-up and hired aerotek, did not return our phone calls. then bp, which was paying for the beach clean-up, told us in a statement it normally checks its own employees but, quote, this was not done for all contractors in this response. the responsibility lies with the when i got my medicare card, employing company for their own staff. i realized i needed an aarp. the requirement on subcontractors to bp s medicare su
workers in mississippi is in jail charged with raping another employee. and now a cnn investigation uncovers his criminal history and raises questions whether this entire incident could have been prevented by doing a simple background check. special investigations unit correspondent abby boudreau goes looking for answers from bp and the company that did the hiring. reporter: one of the thousands of cleanup workers who descended on the gulf coast was this man. rundy charles robertson. he was in charge of numerous workers on this now deserted mississippi beach. the problem was all of these people coming to town were strangers and the residents here had no idea who they were or where they were coming from. and apparently they had good reason to be concerned. robertson was a convicted sex offender. and he was breaking the law by not telling local law enforcement where he s living. i don t understand how they could have had a man like that as our supervisor. do you think what happened