checks. we re 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 the beach cleanups, told us in a statement it normally checks its own employees, but 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 that the sex was consensual, but now he s being held on more than a $500,000 bond and he s sitting in jail. yes, he s in jail.
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and his answer reply was no, we re not. i said, you re kidding me. he said, no, there is so many of them, we were told to do drug screens and that was it. and i said, well, that s not good at all. reporter: but you actually recommended that they get criminal background checks on their employees? yes, we did. and i told them that we would do that for them, we would do the background checks for them. and he said, no. reporter: robertson worked for a company called aerotek, that hired workers to remove oil from the beaches. want to come out and talk to you. i will, but give me a couple of minutes. reporter: i m not going to shut the door and never see you again. i promise. 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 were registered sex offenders? thank you, ma am. reporter: this is when the blame game begins. we talk to the general counsel for aerotek by ph
we re in pascagoula, mississippi, here to talk to the local sheriff. several weeks before this incident, sheriff mike byrd says he met with bp s local head of security, about why bp was not doing background checks on beach cleanup workers. i asked him directly, i said are you all doing criminal histories and background checks on these people? and his answer reply was no, we re not. i said, you re kidding me. he said, no, there is so many of them, we were told to do drug screens and that was it. and i said, well, that s not good at all. reporter: but you actually recommended that they get criminal background checks on their employees? yes, we did. and i told them that we would do 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. want to come out and talk to us. i will come out and talk to
you, but give me a couple of minutes. reporter: so i m not going to shut the door and never seen you again? i promise. reporter: okay, he promises. 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 were registered sex offenders? thank you, ma am. reporter: this is when the blame game begins. first, we spoke with the general counsel for aerotek by phone who said aerotek wasn t the one that decided not to do background checks. we re 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 the beach cleanups, told us in a statement it normally checks its own employees, but this was not done for all contractors in this response. the responsibility lies with the