Ocean Therapy Solutions (OTS) is a company owned by actor Kevin Costner.
He found it difficult to promote its products, until BP placed an order for several of the company's devices in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
On July 8, 2010, OTS reported it had 9 centrifuges deployed in the Gulf of Mexico, with 23 additional machines under construction and scheduled for shipment to Louisiana by the end of August 2010.
They filed a lawsuit in the Louisiana District Court claiming securities fraud and misrepresentation in the amount of $10.64 million.
Costner is then alleged to have used portions of the deposit to buy out plaintiffs shares before they were made aware of the BP purchase, thus cutting them out of the profits from the $52 million sale.