The SEC and the Justice Department should be watching with extreme diligence the financial transactions of the oil firms responsible for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, as one way to limit damage payouts is to show no ability to pay them. I suspect that the three firms involved have gamed out different scenarios, one (or more) of which show that the oil firms will be forced out of business. Which makes the news that Transocean, LTD just approved a $1 billion dividend to its shareholder potentially telling.