Before the court: A Louisiana private investigator faces a possible prison sentence for misusing Donald Trump’s Social Security number in repeated attempts to access the president’s federal tax information before his 2016 election. The Associated Press reports U.S. District Judge John deGravelles is scheduled to sentence 32-year-old Jordan Hamlett today. Hamlett faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty in December. Authorities have said Hamlett failed in his attempts to get Trump’s tax information through a U.S. Department of Education financial aid website. Read more.
Going deep: Shell is moving forward with its multibillion-dollar Vito project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico—the first major Gulf project announced this year, FuelFix.com reports. While Shell isn’t revealing the project cost, the company says it has cut the Vito cost estimate by 70% from the initial project design. The decision to build the four-column semi-submersible platform and the subsea system to develop eight wells comes just before Shell launches the Appomattox platform into the Gulf. The Vito field is more than 4,000 feet deep in the Gulf and is located about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans. Read more.
Voice control: Cox Communications has integrated YouTube into its Cox Contour video system nationwide. Cox says Contour customers can use their voice remote to search and watch YouTube videos on their TV screens. No secondary devices or switch inputs are needed. The announcement comes about five months after Cox announced the integration of Netflix into the internet-connected Contour video system.
